INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION IN THE TREATMENT OF ADULT PATIENTS WITH CLASS III MALOCCLUSION

One of the most severe malocclusion in adults, the class III malocclusion, assume a compex, interdisciplinary approach. The lack of skeletal growth limits the therapeutic options to only two possibilities: camouflage or orthognathic surgery.

These compex cases require careful planning, an interdisciplinary therapeutic concept and patient cooperation. Orthodontic therapy in such cases has its limits and must be correlated with other specialities of dental medicine like periodontology, prosthodontics or surgery.

What are the best diagnostic tools? What are the best interdisciplinary collaboration protocols? How do we approach and treat such cases?

The presentation will discuss these issues, illustrate them clinically and try to elucidate which are the most relevant factors to be considered for the different treatment strategies and how we do the risk management in such cases.

Alex Ogodescu, Full Professor of Dental Medicine at the Faculty of Dentistry, Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Timișoara, Romania

Alexandru Ogodescu is Full Professor of Dental Medicine (Paediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics) at the Faculty of Dentistry, Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Timișoara, Romania (UMFVB, www.umft.ro), head of the Department of Paediatric Dentistry, owner and founder since 2001 of the first private dental practice specialized in adult interdisciplinary orthodontics (www.ortodont.ro). He received his PhD in Interdisciplinary Orthodontics in 2006, from the same university (UMFVB), Romania, after graduating at UMFVB in 1999. He is Senior specialist in orthodontics and dento-facial orthopaedics, Senior specialist in Paediatric Dentistry, specialist in general dentistry, he has competence in the therapeutic and surgical use of lasers in dentistry, and has a master’s degree in health management. He is habilitated and PhD supervisor in dental medicine since 2018 and also coordinator of the paedodontic residency. He works at UMFVB since graduating and also in his private practice since 2001. In 2002, 2004, 2010 he had clinical training internships for orthodontics and paedodontics at Klinik für Kieferorthopädie und Kinderzahnmedizin at the Zentrum für Zahn-, Mund-und Kieferheilkunde the Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland (http://www.zzm.uzh.ch/de ). He is author of more than 200 publications in journals and conferences, 10 books & book chapters. Main research interests: Orthodontics, Paediatric Dentistry, Digital Dental Medicine, Measuring Systems, Optics &Photonics, Biomaterials.