Dean Clark Stanford to Chair AO Summit
Dr. Clark Stanford, Dean of the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry and UIC Distinguished Professor, is Chair of the 2018 Academy of Osseointegration (AO) Summit. The conference will study risk factors for predictable osseointegration and will be held Wednesday, Aug. 8, through Friday, Aug. 10, at the Oak Brook Hills Resort in Oak Brook, IL.
The event is a follow-up to the 2014 AO Summit, which Dr. Stanford also chaired. Dr. Stanford is the Vice President of AO. He will become President-Elect in March 2019.
“Oral implant therapy is highly predictable for most patients,” Dean Stanford said. “Recent literature suggests that for subsets of our patient population, there may be elevated risk factors attributable to local or systemic issues.”
Dean Stanford noted that, “As the literature has evolved, more clinical experience is obtained from oral implants having been in patients’ mouths longer, either because they were in place for many years or because patients are literally living longer. As a result, we are seeing late-term complications that need to be considered. Are there new diagnostic local and systematic issues we need to consider?”
AO’s 2018 Summit “is focused on three questions,” Dean Stanford explained. “What are the issues related to primary implant stability and its role on osseointegration? What is the role of inflammation and risk factors associated with soft tissue health around dental implants? What is the role of systemic health and medication on outcomes of dental implants?”
The event is by invitation only and is expected to draw 130 general practitioner dentists and dental specialists from the United States, Europe, and Asia.
Three breakout sessions are scheduled.
Group 1 will cover Primary Stability and Osseointegration (OI). The plenary talk will be the Role of Orthopedic Prosthesis Stability and Bone Healing and Adaptation by Dr. D. Rick Sumner, the Mary Lou Bell McGrew Presidential Professor for Medical Research and Chair of the Department of Cell and Molecular Medicine at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.
Group 2 will cover Inflammation and OI. The plenary talk will be Inflammation and Mucosal Tissues by Dr. Flavia Teles, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine.
Group 3 will cover Systemic Health, Medications, and OI. The plenary talk will be Systemic Health and Long-Term Outcomes of Osseointegration by Dr. Susan Bukata, Orthopedic Surgeon, Ronald Reagan University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Santa Monica, CA.
Dr. Stanford will give opening remarks each day and take questions at each session.
Each task force will author a position paper on their topics.
Other members of the Planning/Steering Committee for the conference are Drs. John B. Brunski (biomaterials/bioengineering), Stanford, CA; Homayoun H. Zadeh (periodontist), Los Angeles, CA; Lyndon F. Cooper (Associate Dean for Research, UIC College of Dentistry), Chicago; Joseph P. Fiorellini (periodontist), Philadelphia, PA; Jay P. Malmquist (oral and maxillofacial surgeon), Portland, OR; and Tara L. Aghaloo (oral and maxillofacial surgeon, Los Angeles).
Dr. Stanford has been Dean of the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry since 2014. Previously, he had been Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Prosthodontics at the University of Iowa College of Dentistry.
He is Chair of the Scientific Advisory Council of the National Foundation of Ectodermal Dysplasias, a member of the American and International Associations for Dental Research, the American Society for Cell Biology, and the Orthopaedic Research Society. Dr. Stanford is a Fellow of the Academy of Prosthodontics, the International Team for Oral Implantology, and the Institute of Medicine of Chicago, and is the recipient of 15 academic awards.
With 6,000 members in 70 countries, the AO is recognized as the premier international association for professionals interested in implant dentistry. For more information, log on to https://osseo.org.
