Latest / Straumann® ProTalk / Fear comes from not knowing the fundamentals: Dr. Ed Bedrossian on zygoma and biomechanics
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- 0:00An educated man knows how much he doesn't know.
- 0:02Once you think you know everything, that's the beginning of you going down.
- 0:07Then, you know nobody went from zero to a hundred in one second.
- 0:12It takes time.
- 0:13It's very fascinating that you are overseeing now more than three
- 0:16decades of evolvement of implantology.
- 0:19Fear and anxiety comes from lack of knowledge, and once you have the
- 0:23knowledge and you understand how it works, the fear and anxiety goes away.
- 0:28so you had this, let's say, beautiful combination of teaching and practicing
- 0:32as a clinician from the beginning.
- 0:34Absolutely.
- 0:34Since today.
- 0:35Absolutely.
- 0:37my entire basis of thinking is based on biomechanics.
- 0:43No matter what you do, there's occlusal forces that are being placed on whatever
- 0:48it is that you're reconstructing.
- 0:50Most people expect the answer to be yes, but I think my mindset always was anything
- 0:56that said to me, I asked the question why.
- 1:14Welcome to ProTalk.
- 1:16Welcome to the Pulse of Dentistry, and today in this episode, George
- 1:20and myself are very happy to welcome, Maxillo Facial Surgeon by training
- 1:26and someone that has been very active in the pioneering times of implant
- 1:31industry and was breaching it over to the modern field of especially very complex
- 1:37work in atrophied maxilla situation.
- 1:40Welcome professor, Dr. Ed Bedrossian.
- 1:43Welcome Ed.
- 1:44Thank you.
- 1:44Thank you for having me.
- 1:46Thanks for coming all the way over from the US.
- 1:49it's our pleasure to have you here today in Basel.
- 1:51And today, in this episode, you will learn about the mindset that you need to have to
- 1:57approach these type of very complex work.
- 2:00You will learn about zygomatic, about, immediacy, and of course how the
- 2:05future will carry these topics forward.
- 2:09Great to have you, Ed, and, to start with, and before we dive into the
- 2:13mindset and the technique and, everything that you brought to implant industry,
- 2:18who is Ed Bedrossian in one minute?
- 2:22I, as you said, I'm a maxillofacial surgeon by training.
- 2:26I grew up in England and came to the US after high school and did all my training.
- 2:34College, dental school, oral surgery residency in San Francisco area.
- 2:38So that was very convenient and good.
- 2:41I decided to open my own practice from scratch, so my, chief of my program
- 2:47started to laugh when I said that.
- 2:48I said, why are you laughing?
- 2:50He said, you gonna start from scratch, all the competition.
- 2:54I, and I was young, so I said, so what should I do?
- 2:57He said, I think you should come and teach.
- 2:59I said, okay.
- 3:00So from day one.
- 3:02Every Monday for 30 years I was at the residency program and four
- 3:07days in private practice and have been involved with education and
- 3:11private for my entire career.
- 3:15So.
- 3:15you had this, let's say, beautiful combination of teaching and practicing
- 3:20as a clinician from the beginning
- 3:21Absolutely.
- 3:22Since today.
- 3:23Absolutely.
- 3:25I think, if you are involved in that kind of an environment,
- 3:29everybody thinks you are.
- 3:31Doing a lot of teaching, but really you're doing a lot of learning.
- 3:35It forces you to stay on subject.
- 3:38So it's been probably more beneficial for me than it's been for anybody else
- 3:42that has been interacting with me.
- 3:44Yeah.
- 3:45And let's go back to right the beginning of your career.
- 3:48How did you decide to become a dentist?
- 3:50All to be precise.
- 3:51I maxillofacial surgeon.
- 3:53That's very interesting because in England they have a system where everything
- 3:57is based on Oxford and Cambridge.
- 3:59So when you're 12, we have an interview.
- 4:00They decide if you're gonna go into arts or into sciences.
- 4:04So I decided to go into sciences and I don't know, it's just dentist when
- 4:11we're talking to the family, because yeah, you're a doctor, but you don't
- 4:14have to deal with life and death.
- 4:16It's safer, much more comfortable life.
- 4:19So it was just like a child.
- 4:21Okay, that's what I'm going to be.
- 4:23So when I went to dental school.
- 4:26the first week I enjoyed what they were teaching, but not very much
- 4:33And from cultural background, you've been a dentist since you were 12.
- 4:37They called you a dentist.
- 4:40I looked for what else is interesting.
- 4:42And the maxillofacial department was extremely interesting.
- 4:46So from first week of dental school, that was my aim.
- 4:51What would you have to do to be able to enter a residency
- 4:54and what kind of different procedures are done in dentistry?
- 4:57So, that's how I ended up in maxillofacial.
- 5:01but it has changed a lot in the last 30 years.
- 5:05our training was, as I've, I encouraged my son to be a
- 5:09prosthodontist, not a maxillofacial.
- 5:12And one of the reasons is because the, Workflow of the maxillofacial
- 5:18is very different today.
- 5:19Before it was all major facial surgery, TMJ.
- 5:24Orthognathic and such.
- 5:25But with, insurance issues with medical and everything else you
- 5:31became limited in who could.
- 5:34Afford those kind of procedures.
- 5:36And so to make a living you had to do something and extractions and implants and
- 5:41reconstruction became a good way to go.
- 5:45And by literally, it was dumb luck that I thought implant
- 5:50dentistry will be the future of.
- 5:53Maxillofacial at least.
- 5:55And so from day one, I, when my instructor said, come and teach,
- 6:00I, I created this from nowhere.
- 6:03It was no thought or anything.
- 6:05It just ad-libbing a implant.
- 6:09A clinic.
- 6:10So Mondays was just implants at the hospital and slowly over time, I
- 6:16brought in the restorative, then the laboratory, then the protocols, and it
- 6:20developed into a very strong implant.
- 6:24Teaching part of the residency program,
- 6:27and if we, go back to this time, we have to say this was not when
- 6:31implant industry was, let's say, fully established and fully developed.
- 6:34It was in its very early stage.
- 6:36In 1983 was when Pi Branemark came to Toronto and they had the first Toronto
- 6:42meeting where basically he introduced implants to the dental world, 1983.
- 6:49I graduated in 1990.
- 6:51So it wasn't very far.
- 6:54I did not attend the 83.
- 6:55I was too young.
- 6:56But after 90, this, was basically the beginning of implant world and there
- 7:03was no such thing as study clubs.
- 7:05Nobody knew what a study club was and implants.
- 7:07So establishing a study club and just using common sense to know.
- 7:12It to have a group together, to have a, plan and somehow an
- 7:17organized way of learning was the way to figure this field out.
- 7:22And, by grace of God it worked out.
- 7:25It, worked out well.
- 7:27It's very fascinating that you're overseeing now more than three decades
- 7:31of, evolvement of implantology and maybe coming back to your teaching activities.
- 7:38I doubt that actually.
- 7:40You were the one that profited most, I believe that also the other ones Ed a lot.
- 7:45but maybe Ed, were there some turning points, in those three to four
- 7:50decades that really changed how you look at clinical decision making?
- 7:54And how did it actually also change how you taught Implantology?
- 7:58Yeah, I, the answer to that question is yes and no.
- 8:02Most people expect the answer to be yes, there's major changes,
- 8:07but I think my mindset always was.
- 8:11I must have been a terrible child from my mother because anything that
- 8:14said to me, I asked the question why?
- 8:17So from the beginning, why would you put an implant?
- 8:21How would you restore it?
- 8:22Why would you restore it this way?
- 8:24That was my mindset.
- 8:26So really in the last three decades, things haven't changed.
- 8:30If you stay.
- 8:31Honest and true to fundamentals, understanding why you're doing what
- 8:35you're doing, then things usually turn out to be quite predictable.
- 8:40But what has changed is maybe the tools.
- 8:43a more elegant way of doing something.
- 8:45Instead of drawing on a tracing paper on an x-ray to figure out what size
- 8:50implant you're gonna use, now you have a
- 8:53Digital.
- 8:53Three dimensional digital workflows and animations and such things.
- 8:58So it is allowed.
- 9:01Maybe teaching to be easier, more.
- 9:07user friendly, but at the same time maybe makes the student a little bit lazier.
- 9:13Because they expect the machine to figure it out when the
- 9:17machine is as good as user.
- 9:20yeah, that's a good point.
- 9:20And, we probably will have the chance to touch upon it's, say the
- 9:23digital evolution a bit, later on.
- 9:27you, say that a lot of the things actually stay the same, but, still if you look
- 9:31at the last three to four decades, particularly when it comes to, full art
- 9:35reputation of, severely atrophied maxilla,
- 9:39There haven't been, let's say, from the get go all the tools available.
- 9:43So maybe can you elaborate a bit on Yeah.
- 9:46was there an early point and, you said you were very fascinated by
- 9:50the, Oromo facial surgery itself, but was there a point where you said.
- 9:55There is a chance to do things graftless.
- 9:57Yeah.
- 9:57So let's start to use specialty implants.
- 10:02actually, the treatment of the denal severely atrophic maxilla was probably
- 10:07a major turning point, in the past.
- 10:12The way to reconstruct the severely atrophic maxilla, the way we do
- 10:16it today with zygoma implants, for example, used to be with major grafting.
- 10:20Exactly.
- 10:21And the major grafting was actually.
- 10:24Quite difficult because the graft had to be, prosthetically driven, if you will.
- 10:29But that idea of prosthetically driven wasn't well understood,
- 10:32so a lot of people did not do it.
- 10:35So a lot of patients did not have their severely atrophic, maxilla reconstructed.
- 10:40and then one of the ones who chose to have it reconstructed by grafting.
- 10:46As most people know, you cannot put a denture while the bone graft is healing.
- 10:51So the patients had to go without a denture without
- 10:54While the graft was healing.
- 10:56For some reason, majority of patients are females.
- 10:59And to be able to ask a female to have go through a major grafting and not
- 11:04wear teeth for six months or seven months prohibited the treatment of many
- 11:09of these patients in private practice, in a university hospital setting.
- 11:13It was a different clientele, but in private practice.
- 11:17There was a void treating the dens maxilla.
- 11:20So with the introduction of Zygoma implants and the Graftless concept,
- 11:25not only it allowed treating these patients with less invasive techniques,
- 11:31but allowed you to let them have their.
- 11:35At the time, we didn't do immediate loading.
- 11:37First it was two, two stage zygomas, right?
- 11:40But at least they could wear their denture.
- 11:42And then with the evolution of immediate loading, you could go
- 11:45ahead and put the implants in and give them a fixed prosthesis.
- 11:48And even better, the next evolution was a terminal dentition where you
- 11:52could extract and put the implants in, whether it's zygoma or tilted,
- 11:57and give them a provisional.
- 11:59So allowing the patient to basically.
- 12:01Be functional and socially acceptable during their
- 12:05treatment is a major revolution.
- 12:07In being able to treat a lot of patients.
- 12:10Can you draw your personal picture a little bit on how did you actually
- 12:14get to treat your first Zygoma case?
- 12:17from what we see today and from where, in the nineties in
- 12:20Implantology was there is a long way.
- 12:22And how was your personal journey to this, treating those kind of very complex cases?
- 12:27Yeah.
- 12:28I was very lucky to meet Professor Branemark and, very lucky that he actually
- 12:35took me under his wing and was mentored by him, so I spent a lot of time with
- 12:39him, doing the maxillofacial implants for cancer patients, the eyes and the
- 12:44nose, the zygoma implants, because the zygoma implant began with the Maxillectomy
- 12:49patient and the oncology patient.
- 12:51And then it evolved into the intact maxilla.
- 12:54So being, be able to be mentored by the man who, invented it, not only
- 12:59just the hardware, but his influence of the mindset of the clinician.
- 13:06Why are you doing what you're doing?
- 13:09The, empathy for the patient and knowing that you're doing all
- 13:12of this to take care of a human being, is what I learned from him.
- 13:17So that was my, My biggest, luck and my biggest, learning was being
- 13:24able to spend a lot of time with him going to Brazil three, four times a
- 13:28year and just working with him and absorbing everything that he had to do.
- 13:34When was the first Zygomatic implant, actually, that you placed?
- 13:371995, I think.
- 13:40Yeah, that the 96 was the first year we brought it to the North America market.
- 13:47I and actually trained a very select group.
- 13:52And in 97 we met, in Spokane, Washington.
- 13:56Kenji, Gucci was a maxillofacial surgeon that met PI in Germany when
- 14:02he was in the army, and that was the connection of bringing PI over.
- 14:07And, we trained about 20 maxillofacial from all over the us.
- 14:13and, It slowly began.
- 14:16It was not well accepted at the beginning.
- 14:19Because it was just different.
- 14:22The idea of immediate loading, full arch rehabilitation, fixed
- 14:25prosthesis was like foreign.
- 14:28everything was removable, there was over dentures, whatever.
- 14:32it was very complete mind.
- 14:33Different mindset.
- 14:34Like today, everybody wants fixed, everybody wants it right now.
- 14:37It wasn't, the case.
- 14:38It was not the case then.
- 14:40Some people at that time thought, my first presentation of the zygoma
- 14:44at the American Association of Maxillofacial Surgeons meetings,
- 14:47raise some eyebrows.
- 14:48People raise some eyebrows.
- 14:49who is this guy?
- 14:50Yeah.
- 14:51Yeah.
- 14:51And I can imagine.
- 14:52Yeah.
- 14:54if, you, look at the tools and classification principles that are
- 14:58offered today to clinicians, I think it's a totally different, I would say.
- 15:03Baseline that we have, and it's much easier also to, probably start, one of
- 15:07the things that we should quickly talk about is also your, classification, the
- 15:12ocean classification in terms of zones.
- 15:15So you develop this concept of, three and probably four zones.
- 15:19That was later, added.
- 15:22That says, if there is bone or if there is no bone, this is how you
- 15:25should actually place implants.
- 15:27is there enough bone for straight implants?
- 15:30Should you tilt them, et cetera.
- 15:31And also you're, very strict in terms of.
- 15:35Position of implants, number of implants and splinting, which all I
- 15:38think comes then together as a concept.
- 15:41Can you elaborate a bit on how you came to the Petro Ocean classification zone
- 15:45and how you still it, to use still today?
- 15:49The, same classification?
- 15:50Yes.
- 15:51The way it came about was, I think most people will relate to this.
- 15:56When you are in the middle of developing something, you going with the flow.
- 16:02You don't see how you are systematically going through
- 16:06it, if that makes sense or not.
- 16:08One day, one, one, we had 6:00 AM to 8:00 AM treatment planning
- 16:13sessions at the residency program.
- 16:15For some reason, that day, that morning, we had some guests who were
- 16:19sitting behind my residents and I And my resident was presenting and,
- 16:24he was not calling it zones, but he was talking about it and the.
- 16:29Guests were like, Ooh, that's a great way.
- 16:32I could hear 'em saying that, but I ignored it.
- 16:34By the third or fourth time, they said, Ooh, that's a nice way.
- 16:37I turned around and said, what's a nice way?
- 16:39They said, do you have a very systematic way of looking at these patients?
- 16:45I said, really?
- 16:46And anyway, so when they, it's not
- 16:47everyone doing it like
- 16:48this.
- 16:48Yeah.
- 16:48And then when they left, I, when the, it finished that rest of that
- 16:53day, I looked and I said, oh my God, there is a systematic way.
- 16:57So to be able to communicate it, we came up with the zones, and then the, FP one,
- 17:04FP three, we came to a transition line.
- 17:06All of those things now that was in our head that we were
- 17:09just automatically doing it.
- 17:11We.
- 17:12Line item that, so it became a protocol.
- 17:15And again, it doesn't change.
- 17:18fundamentals don't change.
- 17:20it's anatomy.
- 17:21It's, it is anatomy.
- 17:22It's the same thing.
- 17:23So it's the same.
- 17:23It's a true as it is true today.
- 17:26Whether you're using digital or analog treatment planning, using
- 17:28the same fundamental principles
- 17:32maybe to follow up and also, link to the digitization.
- 17:37Your concept was based on panoramic radiographs, and now a lot of people
- 17:42have the possibility to access a conium C three-dimensional data.
- 17:45Can it be easily, translated?
- 17:48Yeah.
- 17:50everything has its own place.
- 17:51The zones, excuse me, is for looking at it.
- 17:56So you have a max, a atrophic.
- 17:58Maxilla.
- 17:59The first step is to look at a two dimensional ex radiograph.
- 18:03Depending on the zones, you decide whether it's tilted concept or it's
- 18:07zygoma, or it's axial implants.
- 18:09So that's your initial.
- 18:12Guess, let's say this is what I'm going to do to confirm you can do it.
- 18:17You need to make sure that there's enough volume of bone.
- 18:20That's where the 3D comes in.
- 18:23Yeah.
- 18:23Radiographs come in and then the zaa classification.
- 18:28Is a very nice interpretation of the 3D anatomy, which basically tells the
- 18:34ziga concept, basically shows you or makes you look at the lateral curvature
- 18:39of the maxillary wall and the degree of medial resorption of the alveolis.
- 18:44So if you are not very much.
- 18:46resorbed or, and you are a con convex, the lateral maxillary wall.
- 18:50You're a Z zero.
- 18:51If you are a very hourglass maxilla with a lot of medial
- 18:56resorption, you're a ZA four.
- 18:57So by using the zones, is a two dimensional radiographic
- 19:02interpretation, whereas the ZA is the three, three-dimensional
- 19:06radiographic interpretation.
- 19:08So it allows you to know, because without the.
- 19:12Remember when I was doing zygomas comb beams and cts were not that
- 19:15available, so we were going off of two dimensional radiographs and then
- 19:20intraop anatomy and surgical knowledge.
- 19:25So whether the middle of the Zygoma implant was inside the
- 19:28sinus or outside the sinus, you recognize that during surgery?
- 19:33with the three Ds now being readily available, knowing that the zaa concept
- 19:39of, looking at the radiograph is a way of evaluating, you can preoperatively.
- 19:45Already know whether you're going to be in the sinus, out the sinus or not.
- 19:49So it's just a much, the digital, workflow allows you to see things and maybe
- 19:57practice the surgery in your mind on the monitor before you actually get to it.
- 20:02so beyond this classification, which became pretty much just the standard way
- 20:06of looking at these cases and selecting.
- 20:09The basic implant concept.
- 20:11What is your guiding concept today when you are placing zygomatic implants, when
- 20:16you approach your own cases, or to phrase it differently, what is the concept
- 20:21you are teaching learning clinicians that, that you do very often at?
- 20:25Yeah.
- 20:26my entire basis of, thinking is based on biomechanics.
- 20:32No matter what you do, it's very nice to, physically do it.
- 20:38This is not a static situation.
- 20:41There's occlusal forces that are being placed on whatever it
- 20:45is that you're reconstructing.
- 20:46So for example, on the Zygoma implant, all the literature and the systematic
- 20:53reviews and all the, protocols that have clearly demonstrated this to be a
- 20:59very predictable procedure is based on what I call quad cortical stabilization,
- 21:05stabilizing the zygoma alveolar ridge.
- 21:08And at the Zygoma and all the literature, like from Frank Renoir shows that
- 21:13it's the first six millimeters of any implant, whether it's tilted, zygoma,
- 21:17axial, that takes all the forces.
- 21:20So the engagement of the implant at the maxillary alveolar ridge is critical.
- 21:26So once you know that, now you adapt the.
- 21:31Patient to you.
- 21:33Try to get your pa, give the best biomechanical surgical
- 21:38procedure To your patient.
- 21:40And if the patient is totally resorbed and you cannot engage the
- 21:44alveolar bone, then you know you have a biomechanical limitation and you
- 21:49just advise the patient, for example.
- 21:52Please don't bite an apple rest of your life.
- 21:55Not because, the misconception is you can reconstruct severe
- 22:00atrophic maxus and have that patient function as if they were normal,
- 22:06fully functional.
- 22:06Yeah, that's not
- 22:08the
- 22:08case.
- 22:08It's very similar to somebody who is an amputee.
- 22:12their amputee from their hip down.
- 22:15They have an artificial leg.
- 22:16you cannot, I'm sure there are Olympic, athletes that have an
- 22:21amputation, but that's not the norm.
- 22:23That's very exceptional.
- 22:25So you have to, it's our job as clinicians to educate our patients On the existence
- 22:32of their anatomical defect and the limitations of their reconstruction.
- 22:39So, what, are the then some of the.
- 22:42Design principles from a prosthodontic perspective.
- 22:45Yeah.
- 22:46What is it that you're teaching there?
- 22:49simplifying, when you have command of a subject, you can explain
- 22:53it in a very simplified way.
- 22:55Everybody talks about loading, what does loading mean?
- 22:58It's
- 22:59centric occlusion and lateral excursion.
- 23:04Whether you have four implants in an arch or 16 implants in an
- 23:07arch, it's the first and the last implant that take all the loads.
- 23:13If you have a cantilever, you double the load.
- 23:16On the first and the last.
- 23:17So it doesn't matter if you have 16 implants.
- 23:19You doubling the load on the terminal implants.
- 23:22So you try to maximize your anterior posterior distribution.
- 23:27For the purposes of eliminating cantilevers for no other reason, but that
- 23:32exactly.
- 23:32And then, so once you've understand those prosthetic, loads, load
- 23:37distributions, then you can modify the number of implants and distribution
- 23:42of implants to meet that criteria
- 23:45On that topic, I wonder, how is the collaboration with your son
- 23:49almond, changing the, game for you?
- 23:53What is it that you learn?
- 23:54From him because he's a trained prosthodontist, right?
- 23:57Has a bit of different focus and a bit of different background and,
- 24:01what are the topics that he would come to you and, ask you for?
- 24:05For advice.
- 24:07Yeah, all father son relationships, he has a lot to teach me.
- 24:13No, he is, he spent a lot of time with me, since high school
- 24:19on vacations and everything.
- 24:20So he's seen all on forest and Zy Gouss evolve.
- 24:24as my assistant, he would spend a lot of time, so he is understood these concepts.
- 24:29He saw the analog conversion and then, when he went to prosthodontics, he
- 24:34went in there with a lot of knowledge.
- 24:36And then obviously the, program he went to, university of Washington is one
- 24:41of the best in the country and they teach him the basics extremely well,
- 24:45and he has a very critical mindset.
- 24:49And very, he jokes around saying, you used to get mad at me for
- 24:56playing with the video games.
- 24:59See how now it pays off?
- 25:01Oh,
- 25:01this is what
- 25:02we also hear.
- 25:03Yeah,
- 25:04exactly.
- 25:04We hear this all the time.
- 25:05Yeah.
- 25:06So, he is exceptionally quick and understands and can figure
- 25:11his way out on ocad, on coag, agnostics, whatever the program is.
- 25:18I'm very happy to have him do those things for me.
- 25:20He's not very happy to have me ask him to print my models for me and
- 25:24do, but no, it's, a give and take.
- 25:27It's a lot of fun, a lot of fun working together.
- 25:29And the best part, because we again, are of the same mindset and, it's,
- 25:34I say a, he knows I'm saying apple.
- 25:37I say B, he knows I'm saying whatever.
- 25:39So we do things without.
- 25:41Too much of a problem.
- 25:43Yeah.
- 25:43Not only this in practice, but you're also teaching to get on lecturing to
- 25:46Yes.
- 25:46Yes.
- 25:47That's incredibly.
- 25:48Last week we were at the American Academy of Fixed Prosthodontics and we presented,
- 25:53zygoma implants from the patient treatment perspective, but he presented the RevX
- 25:59and the exact, and the photogrammetry, the three different ways of making the
- 26:04final prosthesis and the audience seeing.
- 26:09We did a smile in the box.
- 26:10We did a, a axial implant.
- 26:12We did a zygoma, different three patients, and for the, audience to see
- 26:18the clinicians, to see the different surgical approaches, different patients.
- 26:21And then the three different ways of doing the digital final prosthetics.
- 26:27just shows that hey, you can actually seamlessly work with a colleague and
- 26:31everything just makes sense from A to Z.
- 26:35and hopefully they can.
- 26:37Form teams like ours,
- 26:40And you're also publishing together.
- 26:41There's a book that you published together, the immediacy and concept
- 26:44also together with Larry Preft.
- 26:47That I think you for many years collaborate very closely with.
- 26:50Yes.
- 26:51what's special about this book, immediacy concept, because it was published in
- 26:542022, and I know you embarked on this field of immediacy very early on.
- 26:59Yeah.
- 26:59So what's special about this book?
- 27:02again, people who know me, they know that I. I, I'm very
- 27:09honest about why I do what I do.
- 27:12the BLX implant is by far the best designed implant right now, especially
- 27:18with initial stabilization, with the, loads that are being placed on a non osse
- 27:23gated implant with immediate loading.
- 27:25So what we did in that book is, made sure that all the science of bone physiology.
- 27:33contact osteogenesis distance, osteogenesis the surface.
- 27:37like the sl, why is SL active?
- 27:39The best surface?
- 27:40Not the best surface, because somebody just says so.
- 27:42You have to scientifically show that it is and contrast it to the next one.
- 27:47That is not.
- 27:49so we have all of that information in the book.
- 27:51We have all the information about the protocols for
- 27:55example, aesthetic evaluation.
- 27:57What are the criteria to have an aesthetic anterior implant, simplified,
- 28:03like placed, we talked about different implants when you would do the zones.
- 28:08And we tilted versus zygoma and then.
- 28:12this, the, once you de, once you have, described the hardware and the
- 28:18science behind it, the rest of the book starts not putting it together.
- 28:22So this is how you treatment plan from a prosthetic point of view.
- 28:25This is how you do their chapters on how you do the surgery.
- 28:28And then there's chapters on how you do the corrected cast
- 28:31and the final prosthesis.
- 28:34So that book is, really the bible of immediacy.
- 28:39Not because we wrote it, but all the.
- 28:43I asked very many of my colleagues who are really the leading people
- 28:47in the field to contribute chapters.
- 28:51Larry Armand, PAOs, Costas, hr, a lot of people, Danny Boozer,
- 28:58a lot of people have chapters in there talking about the T-L-X-B-L-X
- 29:03and giving all the information.
- 29:04So it's basically a consolidation of all the scientific literature that's there.
- 29:11Written in a very clinically applicable, language so you can read
- 29:16it and know why you're using it.
- 29:19So a book, very worth reading.
- 29:23what do you think is, the, importance of mindset if, you approach immediacy?
- 29:28Yeah.
- 29:30The mindset is treating your patient well.
- 29:35If your mindset is taking care of your patient, then I think automatically
- 29:40you start looking for predictable.
- 29:43You start discriminating the literature.
- 29:45You don't do things just because it's sexy and it's what
- 29:49everybody is talking about you.
- 29:51You ask the why question, and once you understand the protocols.
- 29:58then you learning how to do it for most people, I think is easy.
- 30:03The hardest part is knowing what to do.
- 30:07And, once you understand all those, your mindset becomes, I think, wholesome
- 30:13and your, outcome becomes predictable.
- 30:16But if you're doing things hoping that it will work.
- 30:21yeah, that's the wrong mindset.
- 30:23Yeah.
- 30:23Because the answers are there.
- 30:26going a little bit back into our early conversation.
- 30:28Earlier you said what have I seen evolved in my career?
- 30:33The first, it's, funny because it's three phases and I've
- 30:37been doing it for 30 years.
- 30:39It's three decades, but it just matches perfectly.
- 30:42So I was the, when I graduated, it was the error of.
- 30:46Hoping that the piece of metal would stick to bone.
- 30:51Hoping, yeah.
- 30:52So if the implant was solid, it didn't matter what angle it was in.
- 30:57So it was all surgical based.
- 31:00Then we realized, oops, it does create some prosthetic issues.
- 31:05So the second decade in the two thousands, it was the era of.
- 31:12Understanding biomechanical forces on the implants, understanding, how to place the
- 31:17implant so it could be actually restored.
- 31:20And I think the term prosthetically driven was.
- 31:23Evolve at that time.
- 31:25it's a very old term now.
- 31:27everything is prosthetically driven, but at that time it had a significant meaning.
- 31:32It meant don't put the implant cocke because that's not the right way to do it.
- 31:36So it was that, and then the next decade became the, the.
- 31:43Very generous, hopeful, soft tissue management things, which kind of faded
- 31:49away because we figured out that you can only do so much with soft tissue.
- 31:54So what basically happened over the last three decades is we understood
- 31:58bone, we understood prosthetic forces, we understood what was
- 32:03what overloaded the implant.
- 32:05So the implant number, distribution, angulation, all that was, was, perfected.
- 32:11So today we really have a complete understanding of, implant reconstruction.
- 32:18And it's not everybody looks at it as if it's just the surgery.
- 32:24If I can relate it to building a building.
- 32:27The architect's drawing is critical to the foundation's
- 32:31men's design of the foundation.
- 32:35The foundation and the architectural drawing and the supports and
- 32:38all that go together and how it resists wind and whatever.
- 32:42So it's the same in the mouth.
- 32:43The prosthetic, fundamentals, the surgical fundamentals have to match and you have
- 32:49to make sure that they amalgamate together and then your outcome is predictable.
- 32:53It's not.
- 32:54By accident
- 32:55maybe to close this chapter on, then we move on to digital Which
- 32:59you also covered in your book.
- 33:01Sure.
- 33:02how do you explain the, question that we get very often from people that feel
- 33:08still today, immediacy, psychometrics, and all of those treatments are aggressive
- 33:16and, risky after all those years.
- 33:18And the evidence we have, how do you explain this?
- 33:23I understand it, and I, don't that's what they said about implant placement.
- 33:27In the first case, when I was placing delayed implants in the
- 33:32molars, not immediate, even delayed, the other university in my town,
- 33:39was like, what are you doing?
- 33:40Putting implants in a molar?
- 33:43You're crazy.
- 33:45that's on single implants healed sites.
- 33:47Which today is, the gold standard for somebody who's beginning to do implants.
- 33:52That's the most predictable, easy things to do.
- 33:55So I understand, fear and anxiety comes from lack of knowledge, and once you have
- 34:02the knowledge and you understand how it works, the fear and anxiety goes away.
- 34:09Being s it is respectable.
- 34:11I, respect people who are being, cautious.
- 34:16But, yeah, so it's just understand it.
- 34:20The literature is there.
- 34:21If you have, a question, ask the question and we'll give you the answer.
- 34:25it's not like before where we were not sure what we were doing.
- 34:29We were, we knew always what we were doing, but we couldn't back it up.
- 34:32Now with the data, is available.
- 34:35The immediate immediacy is over 20 years old.
- 34:3825 years, maybe even.
- 34:40It's not a new concept, but more and more people are being introduced to it and
- 34:45more younger people are coming and I would like to see universities teaching it more.
- 34:51Then the young people coming out will not be so surprised and so scared
- 34:55'cause they would already known it.
- 34:57So if we can.
- 34:59Emphasize it in schools curriculums And have the faculty know about it,
- 35:03therefore teach it, then that anxiety level of the new graduate will be less,
- 35:09and hopefully they will accept it.
- 35:11But it's definitely a, it's not an experimental procedure, which a healed
- 35:15implant was considered 30 years ago.
- 35:18No.
- 35:18Yeah.
- 35:19case selection is still important, but,
- 35:21yes.
- 35:23you could, do, you could know all the right.
- 35:26Rules and apply it incorrectly, then you will.
- 35:29Yeah.
- 35:30So case selection.
- 35:31Basically treatment planning.
- 35:34If you were to ask me what are the phases of treating a human being
- 35:37with implants is treatment planning, surgical, prosthetic, it starts with
- 35:44treatment planning, but everybody starts with either surgical or prosthetic.
- 35:49it is backwards.
- 35:49No, it's all with the treatment plant.
- 35:51If you treatment plant it, you basically case selected it.
- 35:55You knowing the treatment planning process, this is not appropriate for
- 35:59this patient, therefore you eliminate it.
- 36:01And that's called case selection.
- 36:03So it's all about treatment planning, but the genes of a dentist is
- 36:11wanna do something, It's exit.
- 36:13Yeah.
- 36:14it's, we are very mechanical, we wanna do things.
- 36:17But if you do it with the knowledge, then it's predictable.
- 36:21You're talking about the architect basically first.
- 36:23First on paper.
- 36:24Let's plan it before you build the fundamental.
- 36:26Yeah.
- 36:26Yeah.
- 36:27So let's switch gears a bit and talk about digital and also the, future of dentistry.
- 36:32And we already touched upon it a little bit, but how has digital planning
- 36:36actually changed the way how you approach these complex maxillary cases?
- 36:42Yeah.
- 36:42And are there some tools that really.
- 36:46In your review changed the outcome to the positive, and are there
- 36:49other digital tools that actually is maybe creating overconfidence?
- 36:56The over I address the overconfidence part first.
- 37:00no digital tool substitutes your analog brain.
- 37:05The digital tool is as good as the person using it.
- 37:09Like a computer as good as the person inputting the information.
- 37:12So that's the bad part where you, may get this, false confidence, thinking that
- 37:19the machine's gonna think for you, but.
- 37:22If you are a true believer of fundamental concepts, and you know
- 37:27it, digital Sur digital, tools are fantastic in maxillofacial surgery.
- 37:34When we do LeFort one osteotomies, the way we used to do it is we would get stone
- 37:38models mounted on the articulator, cut the model, the stone model section, it.
- 37:45Then with sticky wax, move it to where it's supposed to be.
- 37:48Sticky wax it.
- 37:49And that was called model surgery.
- 37:52You said, I'm gonna expand the maxxi of five millimeters,
- 37:55I'm gonna bring it forward.
- 37:56So you cut it, cut the model, you expanded it, you added wax, and
- 37:59you said, yeah, that's a good idea.
- 38:01Or I should expand one more millimeter.
- 38:04today you don't have to do model surgery.
- 38:07You can actually print the patient's skull, you can do the zygoma
- 38:11surgery or the model surgery.
- 38:15As many times as you want.
- 38:16You wanna, I was gonna do it this way.
- 38:18Oh no, I, wanna move the platform further back and get a bigger AP distribution.
- 38:23You can do it on the same model or you can very easily print another model and do it.
- 38:27So it allows you to do the surgery as many times as you want.
- 38:31So when you go to do the surgery on the patient, there's no surprises
- 38:36and maybe you've even made a better decision than you initially thought.
- 38:41So it, just.
- 38:43Makes the, it just makes you a better clinician.
- 38:46Are you using today, with, your hands, and I would say experience
- 38:51also these type of technologies to prepare yourself for surgery?
- 38:55Or is it something that, at one point you don't need it anymore
- 38:59because you have so much experience?
- 39:02I, always did these cases without it, so I have the experience, I don't need it.
- 39:06But, the fact that I can have a son who can print it for me
- 39:12makes it attractive,
- 39:12made it make, makes it quite attractive to have it.
- 39:15Yeah.
- 39:15And I think it would be false to say even the day you think you are that good.
- 39:24Is the day you're gonna make the mistake.
- 39:27During the surgery, the you are done.
- 39:30When the last suture goes in from the beginning to the last suture, even the
- 39:34best experienced person can make the most.
- 39:37Worst complication.
- 39:39If you're not going into surgery with some kind of anxiety, knowing that you can mess
- 39:45this up, I think it's a wrong mindset.
- 39:48You have to go there saying anything can happen.
- 39:51So you are cons, you're concentrating, you are not thinking of other
- 39:55things, you're not joking, you're doing everything perfectly,
- 39:59knowing that you can mess it up.
- 40:00So if you have the opportunity.
- 40:03Even as, a experience I have right now on, on very difficult cases, quad zygoma
- 40:08cases or such, I will print the model and I would basically confirm what I
- 40:14was going to do was the right thing or tell myself, ah, maybe I could move
- 40:18this, or maybe I, so no, it's, a one.
- 40:21No, you cannot be arrogant.
- 40:23having a model surgery is definitely going to add to your, To your, but I have one
- 40:30thing, just for fun to tell your audience.
- 40:34Don't make the mistake I made, I had one week, three cases, I printed
- 40:39three models for efficiency sake.
- 40:42I had the camera because I take pictures of it to use for my lectures.
- 40:46I set up the cameras, I took.
- 40:49Pictures of all three cases and I did not write down the nuances.
- 40:54Which one?
- 40:54No, the nuances of each one.
- 40:57The next day when the first surgery came, I couldn't remember what was the nuance on
- 41:01this one because yeah, so even if you have three cases back to back, do separate the
- 41:06model surgery on one proper finish that.
- 41:09Then do the map because then what you did stays fresh in your mind, right?
- 41:14Yeah.
- 41:14You can sometimes be overly efficient.
- 41:16And
- 41:18so, linking also, the digital planning to the patient, what's
- 41:21your thought on guided surgery?
- 41:24guides for, regular implants, but also guides for matic implants.
- 41:29Yeah.
- 41:30there was, there is a, guided, truly guided zygoma.
- 41:36Truly guided, means.
- 41:38The drills are guided, the implants are guided, everything is guided that exists.
- 41:43myself and two other colleagues in 2007 to 2011 actually did an FDA.
- 41:52challenge on that, where in my first book, before the immediacy, I have
- 41:57step by step of that instrument.
- 41:59But for some reason that instrumentation was shelved because it was.
- 42:06Too early.
- 42:07We did it in, 2000 and most people were not even thinking zygoma.
- 42:12But it does exist.
- 42:13It doesn't exist today.
- 42:15The guidance that are being done right now are basically the initial drill template.
- 42:21The rest of it is all freehand.
- 42:23So it would be very nice to have a true guided 'cause I've done it.
- 42:26It works.
- 42:27It's very nice.
- 42:29but in single implants and in, pro arch and such guided surgery is very nice.
- 42:36it, it's, really an advanced procedure.
- 42:39It's not for the, whereas people think it's for the
- 42:42beginner, for you to do guided.
- 42:44What it robs you from is the tactile ation and the actual, you're not seeing things.
- 42:50Even with, Navigation.
- 42:54Even with, robotics, you are not engaged.
- 42:57You are hoping that this thing, so it does away, take away
- 43:00some of the tactile sensation.
- 43:02But my message would be, if you're doing guided, you must be able to.
- 43:08Do
- 43:09analog if the guide drops, if the guide breaks, if something doesn't work.
- 43:15If you can't do that, then you yourself are in a, in, a bind.
- 43:21And I would never tell, teach somebody to do guided and, knowing that
- 43:27they don't know how to do analog.
- 43:29So it's, again, it's a, it's like a computer versus a pen.
- 43:34It's a very elegant way to do something.
- 43:38But it has its drawbacks.
- 43:40Guided is not as accurate as we think.
- 43:42If it was, then why aren't the abutments prefabricated into the prosthesis?
- 43:48Because the.
- 43:49Deviation X, Y, Z is picked up in the direct, picking
- 43:53up the puppets in the mouth.
- 43:55So as long as you know that, then you make fair statements.
- 43:59Guided surgery is a very elegant way to do it.
- 44:01If you choose to do it fine, but to say it's the best way, it's the most
- 44:05accurate way, it's the, it's not true.
- 44:09yeah, again, we go back to fundamentals.
- 44:11Know the fundamentals, and then if you want to use a guided
- 44:14surgery, it's absolutely fine.
- 44:16It's very nice.
- 44:19Ed, you're also in a lot of editorial boards and you have
- 44:22seen, knowledge expanding, but also maybe change in certain ways.
- 44:27What is one trend that you're quite excited about and maybe what is one
- 44:31trend where you think it's overrated?
- 44:36again, like, I said, the wording of articles, like in for guided
- 44:44surgery where oh, it's the best, is the, this, it's the most accurate.
- 44:48Those are not fair statements because I try not to make absolute statements
- 44:53because an absolute statement means if you're not doing what I'm saying,
- 44:58then you're doing something wrong.
- 45:00I would not wanna put somebody else in that position.
- 45:02I like doing analog surgery because that's what I've done.
- 45:05It's faster.
- 45:06I can do it faster, I can do it, whatever.
- 45:09But that's me.
- 45:10You wanna do it?
- 45:10Guided.
- 45:11That's fine.
- 45:12Four implants, biomechanically is enough.
- 45:16You wanna put six in?
- 45:18Okay.
- 45:19You wanna put 10 in?
- 45:20Now I look at you and say why, but I don't say it's wrong.
- 45:25But to say four is inadequate.
- 45:28That's the trend that, I don't, I, wish that this, that in the
- 45:33literature we continue presenting.
- 45:37True information, not getting too excited and saying six implants or
- 45:42doing this, So as long as the literature stays honest, and then as we get more
- 45:47complicated digital, as the treatment of the fully Denist patient or the severely
- 45:53resort patient with the zygoma becomes more popular, more and more people are
- 45:57writing articles and making statements.
- 46:02The reviewers, if the, wrong reviewer looks at an article and maybe doesn't
- 46:07understand it and okays it sometimes and it has happened, things get in
- 46:11the literature that shouldn't be.
- 46:14So I'm a little worried about advanced surgery being reviewed
- 46:17by non advanced reviewers.
- 46:19That might be, would be my worry.
- 46:21But at the same time, I'm happy because advanced surgery is getting exposure.
- 46:26and the reason why I'm happy is because.
- 46:30As more clinicians know that Quad Zygoma, for example, is available then if they
- 46:36don't know how to do it or they don't wanna do it, they know how to refer it.
- 46:40As opposed to not even knowing that's a possibility.
- 46:42That's a Yeah.
- 46:45Good.
- 46:46Yeah, that's, an interesting topic on, how to deal with peer
- 46:49reviewed, journals, et cetera.
- 46:50Now also that AI is coming in, and it's quite easy to write the text.
- 46:56That sounds very convincing, but then, you need to have someone that
- 46:59checks the fundamentals very properly.
- 47:01Yes.
- 47:02to look a little bit more into the future at, so maybe five, 10 years from now, and
- 47:06we touch upon, your father-son relations.
- 47:09So basically he's already the next generation.
- 47:11Yes.
- 47:13What would you foresee for the severely atrophied maxilla
- 47:17in the next five to 10 years?
- 47:19And maybe what would you hope that your son or the generation of your son
- 47:23would do differently than we do today?
- 47:27Yeah, I, thought about it because, innovation has to go on and, there's
- 47:32gotta be a better way of doing something.
- 47:34But sometimes my short answer to your question is not much.
- 47:43Else, but it doesn't mean stop looking for doing it better.
- 47:49What, we are doing right now with, the surgical reconstruction of the
- 47:53severely atrophic cases that could not be done before what we're doing
- 47:57with the prosthetic rehabilitation, that makes it very aesthetic,
- 48:00very functional, is amazing.
- 48:02The zirconia, the color, the, all the products and all their
- 48:06innovations are very nice.
- 48:08what we are doing with this severely atrophic maxilla is giving them teeth.
- 48:12Is, I know it's not heart surgery, but it's quite life-changing it.
- 48:18It really affects the psychology of the patients.
- 48:20It's wonderful with very minimal long-term issues and the
- 48:25complications that we're having.
- 48:28Screw loosening.
- 48:29The zirconia fracturing.
- 48:30And if you really look at the why it's misfit.
- 48:35It's overloading.
- 48:37It's some of the missing of the fundamentals.
- 48:40So what can we do in the future?
- 48:44Go back to the beginning.
- 48:45Reemphasize fundamentals.
- 48:48And you can make the stronger zy as zirconia, but if there's a misfit,
- 48:53even the strong zirconia will factor.
- 48:54It's still the misfit.
- 48:55Misfit.
- 48:55Yeah.
- 48:57I'm not sure, can we put tooth buds and genetically grow teeth and maybe, yeah.
- 49:04But yeah.
- 49:05But I think we should look at innovation.
- 49:07But today, right now, what I see is, continue on the.
- 49:11Industry support on modifying instruments and, whatever it is
- 49:17that we need to be able to match the science that we know works.
- 49:22And having, again, industry facilitate, meetings where the clinicians can
- 49:29come together and spread the news, because it's very difficult to get.
- 49:34700, 1000, 2000 people in one room and have a symposium Without industry support.
- 49:40So yeah, continuing that is, and then as one genius comes up with a
- 49:46new thing that I'm not even thinking of, I'm very happy to entertain it.
- 49:50Yeah, that's good.
- 49:51So that's a good pitch actually, to.
- 49:55Our last chapter, we wanted to speak about you as a speaker,
- 49:59as an educator, and as a mentor.
- 50:01And I understood from the beginning that you've been
- 50:04actually an educator from day one.
- 50:07Day one.
- 50:07So you had four days in the
- 50:08Yeah.
- 50:08In practice, one day teaching.
- 50:12I would like to start with the following question.
- 50:14what is for you the difference between a good surgeon and a great surgeon in
- 50:20this, in the field that we spoke about?
- 50:23A good surgeon and a great surgeon.
- 50:28I think, a great surgeon, just like a educated man.
- 50:36An educated man knows how much he doesn't know.
- 50:40If you, once you think you know everything, that's the
- 50:43beginning of you going down.
- 50:46So a great surgeon.
- 50:48Thanks God that he.
- 50:51Was successful in doing the surgery because everything, any, every,
- 50:56at any moment things can go wrong.
- 50:59a great surgeon, just like a good surgeon, hopefully follows
- 51:04fundamental principles, treatment planning, and does everything right.
- 51:08and just recognizing that, you can make a mistake and knowing how not
- 51:14to make it and being aware of that.
- 51:16And just being humble and that's what makes the great surgeon, knowing
- 51:20that there's still room to learn and getting into arguments, which I'm
- 51:24very good at doing is not a bad thing.
- 51:28Yeah.
- 51:29And I debate because I can learn a lot.
- 51:32From you and you can possibly learn from me.
- 51:34So debates are good.
- 51:37as long as you have a goal, the horizon is to come up with a
- 51:42Good solution.
- 51:44So, what is the, ideal way, if I would be a young clinician and, I want to embark on
- 51:50a journey that you and Armand on and say, look, I would really like to master this.
- 51:54Complex, reconstructions and doing life changing things to patient,
- 51:58especially in the atrophic maxilla.
- 52:01What for you is the, best path for me to get there?
- 52:05Yeah.
- 52:06it has to be in you.
- 52:07part of the previous question was a great surgeon.
- 52:11You have to have passion.
- 52:13you have to have passion to do the right thing.
- 52:16It has to.
- 52:17It cannot be money.
- 52:19It cannot be, oh, look at me, I can do zago.
- 52:22It cannot be all of those ego things.
- 52:24You have to have the passion to do the right thing.
- 52:27You have to get satisfaction after, having helped somebody,
- 52:32even if they didn't thank you.
- 52:34You have to know that, wow, this is a great service.
- 52:37Imagine if that was me, or imagine if my mother needed that procedure.
- 52:42So if you have the passion, and you just, Your time will come
- 52:49if you want to be a educator.
- 52:51If you want to be a speaker, if you want to be a, role model for others
- 52:55to follow, then you know nobody went from zero to a hundred in one second.
- 53:01it takes time, and time is again educating yourself.
- 53:06Knowing what you're doing, practicing getting the experience and just everybody
- 53:10just like me, have what I'm doing.
- 53:12I'm basically paying it forward.
- 53:14I learned from somebody.
- 53:16And now I'm basically, I'm not teaching anybody what I know.
- 53:20I'm teaching everybody what somebody taught me.
- 53:23And if you can keep that open mind and be humble and passionate,
- 53:28I think everything will just.
- 53:31Come into.
- 53:31Yeah, come into play.
- 53:33What I find very impressive in the field that we speak about that is that
- 53:36I still see very experienced surgeons and clinicians that are still going to
- 53:42courses and conferences all the time.
- 53:44They never stop learning.
- 53:46That's very impressive because at one point you could say, look,
- 53:49you have seen it, you have learned it, and you know how it works.
- 53:52Yeah.
- 53:53But, my impression is that these people, the, greatest surgeons,
- 53:57that they always continue learning.
- 53:58Yeah.
- 53:58Because, like I, I talk to, a lot of my colleagues who say, why should I go?
- 54:06I know, and I say to them, if you learn one thing, one thing, Out of
- 54:12that four hour thing, it was worth it.
- 54:15It
- 54:15worth, it
- 54:15doesn't, and it could be the simplest thing.
- 54:19It could be the way your front desk greeted the patient before
- 54:22the surgery because they were so anxious, et cetera, et cetera.
- 54:25That kindness, that protocol that you have on greeting patients brings the
- 54:29blood pressure down during the surgery.
- 54:31Everything is fine.
- 54:32There's always something to learn.
- 54:34It's impossible.
- 54:36Ah, there's always also something to learn not to do.
- 54:40Yeah.
- 54:40Yeah.
- 54:41So you see this thing, you go, oh my God, thank God I'm not doing it.
- 54:45But if you go in and you learn 15 things, you might wanna go home and
- 54:50question, what is it that I'm doing?
- 54:52Am I the right conference
- 54:54or am I doing the right thing?
- 54:57Exactly.
- 54:57Do I have the right, patience in my, yeah.
- 55:00Yeah.
- 55:00Yeah.
- 55:00So thanks a lot that, that already brings us to the end.
- 55:03And, as usual, I would like to ask my colleague, George, what,
- 55:07what stood out for you in this, 50 minutes of exciting conversation?
- 55:11A lot actually, Ed, so I, have a mental picture basically of your journey
- 55:17that, maybe might be, accurate or not, but, I, think it's, for me, it's a
- 55:22good summary of the conversation that we had to, had, the chance to have.
- 55:25So I think for you, it started always with.
- 55:29First of all, you were very clear that you wanted to become
- 55:31an OF surgeon from the get go.
- 55:33And I believe also this, mindset, having the right mindset was very important.
- 55:38And, we dis discussed about the importance of putting the patient first.
- 55:42And the second thing that we just discussed is about the passion,
- 55:46Passion for doing the things right.
- 55:48and I think this then also led to a lot of systematic thinking that,
- 55:53you look into literature, you try to analyze and distill the essence
- 55:57you're good at also creating then some recipes that other can profit from.
- 56:02And that actually, we, talked a lot about this, fundamentals that are there.
- 56:07But at the flip side, you also need to have this.
- 56:11Openness to constant, constantly also questioning, let's say these
- 56:14fundamentals and learn new things.
- 56:16And that brings me to the, to this last point, which, I think
- 56:19you're very passionate about.
- 56:21And, I didn't know, but very fascinating.
- 56:23So from the get go, you started educating and you dedicated a day per week,
- 56:28which is a lot to actually bringing what you learned to other people.
- 56:31Yeah.
- 56:32And this combination, I think of critical thinking, having the
- 56:35mental capacity to break down.
- 56:39Complex topics into something that people can take away.
- 56:42I think that was, for me, a, great highlight of the conversation.
- 56:46Very well summarized.
- 56:47Thanks a lot.
- 56:48No, thank you.
- 56:48And I just, I want the audience to also know that although this is a, Straumann
- 56:53podcast, working with the right team, including commercial is very important.
- 57:02I use the Straumann products or I use the protocols, or I
- 57:07help develop the protocols.
- 57:09You can have the right protocols, but if you don't have the right tools,
- 57:13you don't have the right support, you don't have the right, like we
- 57:15talked earlier, T&E, that allows to bring all these clinicians together.
- 57:21Then we are working in little silos and being able to provide
- 57:25this in the US or globally.
- 57:28It's, very helpful to my profession.
- 57:30So I wanna thank industry you guys for creating this podcast or
- 57:34everything else that you guys do.
- 57:36'cause it's very, important.
- 57:38Thanks a lot for the feedback, Ed, and I think that's, close to our
- 57:41heart that we support in the way that you can focus on what matters most.
- 57:46And that's, treating the patients and you don't need to worry left and right
- 57:49about support and this stuff working, but we, try to make this happen for you.
- 57:55So thanks for joining today.
- 57:56Thank you for the conversation.
- 57:57It's pleasure, really loved it, loved the energy of it.
- 58:00And to our listeners, if you loved the episode as much as we did, if you
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- 58:30Thank you, Ed.
- 58:30Thank you, George.
- 58:31Thank you.
- 58:32Thanks.
- 58:32Thank you.