IMPLANT TRIBUNE The World’s Dental Implant Newspaper · U.S. Edition MARCH 2019 — Vol. 14, No. 3 www.dental-tribune.com AO meeting to feature surgical, prosthetic tracks The AO 2019 Annual Meeting, which takes place March 13-16 in Washington, D.C., will feature concurrent surgical and prosthetic tracks. (Photo/Provided by AO) March meeting offers different focuses for varied audience OMS Foundation achieves $1 million fund goal By AAOMS Staff After surpassing its $1 million 2018 annual fund campaign goal, the OMS Foundation is poised to further support re- search and education that can improve patient care in oral and maxillofacial surgery. The foundation established the $1 mil- lion campaign goal to honor the centen- nial of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS), its parent organization that was founded in 1918 and today represents more than 9,000 oral and maxillofacial surgeons across the United States. “We set an ambitious fundraising goal as a way to celebrate AAOMS’s 100th anniversary, and the OMS specialty re- sponded beyond even our expectations,” said Kathy A. Banks, DMD, chair of the Foundation Board of Directors. OMS National Insurance Co. (OMSNIC) jumpstarted the campaign with a $100,000 gift-match challenge that generated $300,000 three months. Subsequent challenges sup- ported by AAOMS and Treloar & Heisel, an insurance provider for dentists and specialists, also surpassed their goals. in Individual gifts ranging from $5 to $10,000 sustained the momentum of the campaign. Support also arrived from the International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (IAOMS), the IAOMS Foundation, the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (ABOMS), the American College of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (ACOMS), the Canadian Association of Oral and Maxil- lofacial Surgeons (CAOMS), 36 state and regional OMS societies and several col- lege and university OMS training pro- grams. AAOMS President A. Thomas Indresa- no, DMD, FACS, and his wife, Rita, made the pivotal contribution to put the cam- By AO Staff To drive home its theme of “Current Factors in Clinical Excellence,” the Academy of Osseointegration’s 2019 An- nual Meeting will offer a full day of concurrent surgical and prosthetic tracks on March 15 to answer the clini- cal and scientific questions that all cli- nicians ask themselves, no matter his or her specialty. Morning sessions Whichever sessions attendees choose, each track will begin with its own re- spective plenary session entitled, “10 Years After.” “The idea to have a session ‘10 Years After’ means asking why you have changed, if you have changed, your practice, your protocols and your indi- cations,” said Dr. Franck Renouard, 2019 annual program committee chairper- son. “We will ask different speakers, both in surgery and prosthetics, what they did then and what they do now.” Moderators for “10 Years After” will include Edward Sevetz Jr., DMD, for the surgical track and Stephen Parel, DDS, for the prosthetic track. Topics of the “10 Years After” surgical track will in- clude vertical and lateral ridge augmen- tation; full maxillary reconstruction; and augmentation using biologics. “What differences have become rou- tine in the past years, compared to the ‘early’ days? Techniques have better es- thetic results and techniques can pro- vide faster results. The bottom line is more patients can be treated, more suc- cessfully, more quickly and with better- looking, enhanced smiles,” said Sevetz, an AO and Osseointegration Founda- tion (OF) past president. “All meetings tell attendees about ‘progress.’ How- ever, the AO Annual Meeting is where they will find the most scientifically oriented, evidence-based source for better patient care using osseointegra- tion.” For the Friday “10 Years After” pros- thetic track, Parel, an AO past president, will moderate a series of seven topics, including “10 Years After” for zirco- nium and screw-retained prosthesis, overdenture and tilted implants. Afternoon sessions Following the plenary sessions, each of the tracks will continue their respective programming and return to the science that underpins implant dentistry, fea- turing sessions on peri-implant bone biology. For the surgical track, the two main sessions will include: “Osseointe- gration: Restoration of Homeostasis or ” See AO, page B2 ” See OMS, page B2