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40 implants 4 2016 46th International Annual DGZI Congress in Munich How much aesthetics do we need in implantology? Author: Dr Georg Bach, Germany TheDGZI’s46th InternationalAnnualCongresswas dedicated to quite a provocative topic. For this year’s congress, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zahnärzt liche Implantologie (DGZI) picked the best-possible location with Bavaria’s Wiesn metropolis Munich. The scientific directors of the two-day event chose high-calibrespeakerstoapproachanddiscussatopic which has been interpreted differently over the past two decades of oral implantology, ranging from the purely surgical implantology of the early years with an almost total neglect of aesthetic needs over an exaggerationofaestheticaimsviaoralimplantsupto the pragmatic juxtaposition of both positions. “Congress makers” Prof. Dr Herbert Deppe and Prof. Dr Roland Hille have succeeded in their endeavour to present this practice-oriented and at times contro versialtopicinitsentirety,givingimportantimpulses for its implementation to the dental practice. In their introductory speech, the two scientific directors pointed out that while dental implantology was sci entifically approved 30 years ago and can hence look back on a long history, some of the initial problems have remained unsolved in spite of the numerous achievements in this discipline. Europe’s oldest dental society wants to face those challenges and offer some possible solutions. The start of the congress: a strong signal Notonlywasthepresenceofnumerousassociated implantological societies from abroad, among them delegationsfromJapan,EasternEuropeandNorthern Fig. 1: Full house at the 46th International Annual DGZI Congress. Fig. 1 | events 42016