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meetings I _The 6th Swiss Biomaterial Days, which took place on 9 and 10 May 2014 in Lucerne, were dedi- cated to future-oriented, minimally invasive treat- mentconcepts.LocatedonthenorthwesterntipofLake Lucerne, the event provided its 150 participants from all over Europe with a complex scientific programme and top-level speakers. Prof. Dr Walter Lückerath/University of Bonn, Ger- many, who held the scientific chair of the congress, statedinhisinvitation,“Weareobligedtoourpatients tostriveforlessinvasiveprocedures,sothattreatment becomes less strenuous. With this in mind, we chose the topics and speakers for the 6th Swiss Biomaterial Days with a focus on minimally invasive concepts”. The pre-congress “Guidor Matrix Barrier” was di- rectedbyProf.DrDrErichWintermantel.Parallelwork- shopsonaugmentation,periodontology,oralsurgery and aesthetics started at noon, along with the main congress. The key element of less or non-invasive treatment conceptsisminimallyinvasivesurgery.Therefore,Prof. Dr Dr Wilfried Engelke’s speech dealt with the trans- fer of medical approaches—small incisions and endo- scopy—to oral surgery and implantology. Dr Mario Kirste, Dr Minas Leventis and Prof. Lückerath showed how modifications of contemporary surgical or clini- cal procedures for the maintenance of the alveolar ridge can help simplify clinical procedures, thus re- ducing side effects of the treatment. Prof. Dr Ashish Kakar and Dr Antonio Flichy illustrated how immedi- ate implantation can help reduce the number of sur- gical procedures. Prof. Dr Else Marie Pinholt’s speech dealt with the microstructures of periimplant hard tissues after augmentation with bone substitutes. Inaddition,minimallyinvasiveconceptsshouldin- cludeneworrecentlydiscoveredsurgicalapproaches, offeringthechancetocomplementorreplaceinvasive techniques. Dr Dr Karl-Heinz Heuckmann and Prof. Kakar’s workshops showed the participants how sub- periosteal tunnel techniques can be applied success- fully as minimally invasive techniques in lateral ridge augmentation. Often, the least invasive approaches are those which manage without surgery. In this con- text, PD Dr José Gonzales gave demonstrated non- surgical approaches to periodontal treatment con- cepts for patients with systemic diseases._ Fig. 1_The Lucernce venue. Fig. 2_Team Sunstar Guidor, Germany, CEO Dr Gerhard Pötsch (middle). Fig. 3_Prof. Dr Walter Lückerath (2nd from left) and congress partici- pants during the pre-congress. Fig. 4_Prof. Dr Dr Erich Wintermantel during the pre-congress. Minimally invasive treatment concepts in Lucerne Author_Jürgen Isbaner, Chief editor DT D-A-CH I 47implants2_2014 Fig. 1 Fig. 2 Fig. 3 Fig. 4