Masters of Removable Prosthetics: Celebrating 25 years of the BPS System

Join us for our amazing event where removable masters will share their tips, tricks and techniques focused on BPS analogue and digital
About this Event

Synopsis: 

Ivoclar UK would like to invite you to join us on October 21st/22nd 2022 for our 2 day Masters of removable prosthetics event to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the introduction of the BPS (Biofunctional Prosthetic System). The event will be held at the De Vere East Midlands Conference Centre, Beeston Lane, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RJ

Since it’s introduction, the BPS (Biofunctional Prosthetics System) has provided dental professionals around the world with a systematic workflow to enable both the clinician and dental technician to work alongside one another to produce dentures that meet the increasing demands of our patients.

The system is trusted by dental professional and has been used as a base to develop some of the most successfull and accurate techniques for producing removable and implant prosthetics including the Dr Jiro Abe SEMCD (Suction Effective Mandibular Complete Denture) technique and most recently, the Ivotion Digital Denture System.

Aims:

This 2 day event aims to deliver an in depth look into all aspects of the system and explain the evolution of the BPS and Ivotion Digital Denture System detailing how they are enabling dental professionals to deliver consistent results by providing premium solutions for their patients. By deep diving into topics, including those which are rarely covered, participants will be shown the full range of applications of both systems, how they are intrinsically connected and cover exactly what a real understanding of the systems will enable participants to achieve in their everyday workflow.

We have carefully designed this 2 day programme to take you on the interesting evolution of the system, from its roots in the original Gnathomat, how this led onto the development of the Stratos articulator, UTS Transferbow and set up templates right up to the system being used to develop the Ivotion Digital Denture System which now enables beautiful Digital Dentures to be delivered in just 2 appointments., we will cover all topics in greater detail than ever before.

All speakers are true leading removable experts and will be sharing their insights into the techniques, meaning the 2 days promise to be full of incredibly useful information, tips and tricks as well as examples of the real world applications by those who use the systems everyday.

The event aims to provide a unique and in depth look into all aspects of the BPS and Ivotion Digital Denture system to enable delegates to improve their knowledge and understanding as how best to use the full range of indications for the systems.

Speakers

Robert Grünenfelder

Mr Robert Grünenfelder trained as a Dental Technician and worked in Switzerland before joining Ivoclar in 1981, he initially worked as a technical consultant before moving into the Research & Development as Head of Prosthetic Equipment in 1987. During his career which has spanned over four decades with the company, Robert has overseen the introduction of several important pieces of equipment including the Stratos articulator range, UTS Transferbow, Gnathometer CAD, Programat sintering & firing furnaces and also the Ivobase injector. He was also part of the team responsible for the introduction of the BPS concept and workflow. Today, Robert works as Global Head of Furnaces.

Lecture Title: Gnathomat, UTS and Stratos: Background information on the development of the BPS units

Lecture Description: Robert is a true pioneer in dentistry and throughout his career, he has been involved in the development of some of the most innovative, successful, and widely used pieces of dental equipment in our profession. In this lecture, Robert will tell the story of just one of those projects…the development of the BPS system and it’s associated components. He will show the thinking behind the concepts for the system and just what led to the creation of one of the most successful and widely used denture systems available. With an in-depth look at some of the behind the scenes research and development which went into shaping the BPS workflow and its hardware, this promises to be an incredibly interesting and informative presentation and show the clinical/technical reasons for the systems global success.

Dr Frank Zimmerling

Dr Zimmerling studied dental medicine in Würzburg, Germany. His career started as an assistant dentist in a private practice, he then joined the University Dental Clinic in Bonn, Germany, as a resident in the departments of preclinical education and prosthodontics. In 2003, he established a dental practice in Cologne, Germany, and in the same year he received his doctorate in dentistry. He holds the position of Head of Removable Prosthetics Global Education at Ivoclar and he and his team are actively involved in the R&D of both analogue and Ivotion digital dentures.. He lectures and offers training courses internationally, specializing in removable prosthetics. He holds the additional qualifications of BPS Master Instructor and Instructor for the SEMCD technique developed by Dr Jiro Abe.

Lecture Title: The BPS Clinical & Technical workflow

Lecture Description: In this lecture, Frank will show the correct steps involved in the workflow for achieving the most from BPS as well as sharing some of his personal tips and tricks to improve your results and help avoid some of the common problems faced in the clinic. The lecture will cover topics such how to correctly record the patients OVD using the centric tray technique, creating superb functional impressions, eradicate incorrect bite recordings using the gothic arch tracing system, utilising the UTS Transferbow and how best to transfer the patient data to the laboratory, checking face heights during try in as well as assessing tooth position regarding phonetics and aesthetics.

Mr Mattheus Boxhoorn

Mattheus Boxhoorn CDT, trained as a dental technician in Switzerland. Initially working in a commercial laboratory as an all-round technician for 24 years, he then worked with the Prof. Gerber study group and for the Condylator-Service. There, he had the opportunity to work with the teacher & denturist Max Bosshart, which allowed him to improve his knowledge in the field of removable prosthetics. He has worked in the US and at the University of Queensland in Australia as a lecturer for removable prosthetics. Since 2005, he has been working as the Senior Manager Global Education Technical for full dentures at the Ivoclar Academy in Liechtenstein. He is a Master Instructor of the Biofunctional Prosthetic System (BPS) and the DDP Digital Denture System. Additionally, he is also a qualified technical Instructor for Suction-Effective Mandibular Complete Dentures (SEMCD by Dr Jiro Abe).

Lecture Title: Clinical & technical considerations to establish the fully individualised & customised prosthesis

Lecture Description: Mattheus will deliver an in depth explanation on using all components of the Stratos system, including all of the features and associated equipment including UTS Transferbow, facebow + range set up templates. He will explain the clinical and technical factors to take into consideration when choosing to use personalised assortment with UTS or the average value assortment. And how this affects the approach in the clinic and laboratory. Detailing what clinical data is needed to give the laboratory all the information they need to create the most accurate prosthetics. Mattheus will explain the importance of such knowledge and how a sound understanding of the analogue approach will also enhance your digital dentures.

Professor Kenichi Matsuda - Live link

Bio: Professor Matsuda qualified as a Dentist in 2003 before going onto complete his Ph.D at Osaka University in 2007. He became a clinical fellow in the hospital attached to the same University, and in 2019, became the director of his own practice - HILIFE OSAKA-UMEDA Dental Clinic where he is also the Academic Leader in the HILIFE DENTURE ACADEMY. In 2019, he was appointed Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Prosthodontics, Gerodontology and Oral Rehabilitation, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry. He is a BPS Clinical master instructor and member of the International Association for Dental Research: IADR, International College of Prosthodontists: ICP, Japan Prosthodontic Society (Board Certified Instructor ), Japanese Society of Gerodontology (Board Certified Member), Japanese Society of Oral Implantology (Board Certified Fellow), Course Instructor of Removable Prosthodontics, SHOFU co.

Lecture Title: A Historical Overview of the Advantages of the BPS

Lecture Description: As we all know, BPS and it‘s background concept has a great history. In this lecture, I will show the advantages of the BPS with a historical viewpoint, with a particular focus on the impression method - Why Closed mouth impression? I will also cover the occlusal concept - What are the positive features about Ivoclar‘s artificial teeth? Additionally I will describe the progress of BPS in Japan. BPS is now widely recognised in Japan, not only by many clinicians but also by academia such as university prosthetic departments, and its advantages are well known. I would like to explore the reasons for this progress.

Mr Paul McNally & Mr Jozsef Ratonyi - Joint Lecture

Mr Paul McNally qualified as a Clinical Dental Technician (CDT) from the Dublin Dental University Hospital in summer 2014 and successfully opened McNally Denture Clinic in his home town of Carlow. With over twenty seven years experience in the field of Dental Technology he practiced as a Dental Technician and successfully ran his own Dental Laboratory. Paul is passionate and extremely knowledgeable in his field, with his artistic eye and skill, he has a reputation of producing natural looking and functional dentures. Paul lectures internationally on the topic of removable dentures and is proud to also hold the titles of certified BPS Denturist instructor as well as a Dr Jiro Abe SEMCD international clinical and Technical Instructor

Mr Jozsef Ratonyi

Jozsef graduated a Dental Technician’s in 1999 in Budapest at 6.nr Industrial special professional school. He started work as an employee in Törökbálint in 1999, and opened his own laboratory in Ráckeve in 2003 where he still works today. His laboratory specialises in removable BPS dentures, and full arch rehabilitations. Jozsef received awards in the Candulor competition in 2015, and 2019. Since 2017, he has been a BPS technical instructor for the BPS system of Ivoclar and is also a technical instructor of SEMCD by Dr Jiro Abe. Joszef is also a published author and has wrote a professional textbook for dental technician students first published in 2018 by Medicina publisher. Title: Introduction to the total prosthetic. He has taken part in the dentistry education program in the Debrecen medical University between 2018-2020. In 2020, he became an honorary member of the Prosthodontists Group of the Hungarian Dentist Assosiation. A strong passion for learning has also seen him complete the dental assistant and clinical dental hygienist program. Recently, Joszef was proud to publish his second textbook, The Totalprosthetic 1. Which came out in hungarian language, in March of 2022. Published by Ars Artis Medical Publishing Ltd.

Lecture Title: The Evolution of BPS SEMCD: Our combined journey.

Lecture Description: Join Paul McNally and Joszef Ratonyi as they take you on an in depth dive into their experiences of the evolution of the BPS system into BPS combined with Dr Jiro Abe’s SEMCD technique. This joint lecture will see Paul and Joszef explain both their successes and challenges as well as what drives them on as they carry out ongoing further development and fine tuning of the system for the most difficult of cases. They are delighted to be able to share their journey from being the trainees to becoming the trainers, and are driven to share their combined passion and experiences with as many people as possible.

Mr Kenji Iwaki

Kenji graduated in 1994 as a Dental Technician from Japan Dental University and worked in a laboratory before opening his own laboratory in 2000 – I.D.T Dental Laboratory. He became a Certified BPS Dental Technician in 2003 and won first place in the Ivoclar global BPS contest. He successfully completed the BPS technical master course in Ivoclar Headquarters in 2010. He has completed courses in Zurich on Gerber Denture technique and the Gerber Registration technique. In 2014 he qualified as an Ivoclar Vivadent BPS technical instructor and went on to open the state of the art Dental Labor IDT Co., Ltd. In 2016. He is also a lecturer at Japan Dental University Tokyo Junior College. In 2017 he completed the Digital Denture course at Ivoclar. He is a key member of Dr Abe’s SEMCD personal team and master clinical and technical SEMCD instructor, he is also a member of the JPDA (Japan Plate Denture Association). A published author, his work has featured in several leading dental publications

Lecture Title 1: Coexistence of Function & Aesthetics in Class II & III relationship

Lecture Title 2: Unlock the potential of Therapeutic denture and Digital denture fabrication

Lecture Description: Kenji will focus on patients with class 2 and class 3 occlusions, In these situations, patients request not only a denture of high quality, but also with excellent aesthetics, especially those with class 2 or class 3 jaw relationships. Depending on the individuals situation and the maxillomandibular relationship, more advanced ideas and techniques may need to be used to achieve maximum success for the patient. Of course, the finer details of the application of BPS must be carefully considered to achieve successful results in class 2 or class 3 patients, however, to also meet the demands for an exceptional aesthetic outcome, there needs to be special ideas to gain complete patients satisfaction when using the BPS method. Kenji will show several new examples related to the topic and using his own actual patient cases, he will explain the points to look out for in order to fulfill the functional patients expectations and also achieve a satisfactory aesthetic result.

Dr Fumiaki Yamazaki

Dr Yamazaki graduated from Kyushu University in 1995, working in general practice up until 2012 before he went on to open his own state of the art Yamazaki Dental Clinic in Toyama where he works today. He is a master instructor of the BPS workflow as well as also being a master instructor of the Dr Abe SEMCD suction denture technique and delivers hands on courses on both techniques. He is an international speaker and trainer on removable prosthodontics and delivers education to dental professionals around the world. In 2017 he successfully completed his PhD and graduated from Osaka University. He is the current Vice-president of the JPDA (Japan Plate Denture Association).

Lecture Title: Optimal success with Suction effective mandibular complete denture (SEMCD) using digital technology

Lecture description: The application of suction effective mandibular complete denture (SEMCD) offers many advantages, including the simplicity of its procedure, and an increase in denture retention which leads to an improved feeling of denture security, jaw relationship, and ultimately, a higher level of patient satisfaction. While the procedures involved are simple, there are some traps along the way that may result in an imperfect denture. With recent digital technology, many of those traps can be avoided. The purpose of this lecture is to introduce the application of SEMCDs using digital through my case report.

Mr Thomas Doblander

Thomas completed his apprenticeship as a dental technician in Germany in 2002. After acquiring his university entrance qualification, he worked for DENTSPLY DETREY for 6 years before joining Ivoclar Vivadent AG in 2016. Initially, he worked as a product manager and was responsible for the portfolio of artificial teeth and denture base materials. In 2016, he secured the position of Manager Global Education Technical at the Ivoclar Academy in Liechtenstein where he his is responsible for the training of dealers, customers and employees in the field of removable prosthetics and digital dentures worldwide. In addition, he lectures internationally at congresses and events. He also holds the title of BPS Technical master instructor.

Lecture Title: A Clinical & Technical approach to creating aesthetic and functional digital dentures for the edentulous patient.

Lecture Description: For some years now, the focus has also been on the fabrication of removable prosthetics using CAD/CAM technology. In the dental laboratory, the development of appropriate advanced hardware and software, as well as suitable material is being increasingly adopted and has already become well established. On the clinical side, however, not all work steps can yet be digitized on the patient. Therefore, a system is needed that combines the known basics on the clinical side with the new technologies in a satisfactory way. The Ivotion digital denture system allows the dental professional to use both analogue and digital approaches, resulting in incredibly accurate, functional and aesthetics dentures.

Mr Germen Versteeg

Germen Versteeg, denturist and dental technician, founder of DTL Mediaan. DTL Mediaan and Mediaan clinic are a full-service dental clinic and laboratory. In 2020 Germen founded Denticien, a completely new concept to bring dentures to high streets and shopping centres in a completely new way. Germen Versteeg is an International key opinion leader and speaker for Nextdent, 3shape, Ivoclar and Straumann

Lecture Title: “Digital dentures learn the past, watch the present and create the future”

Lecture Description: In this presentation I will take you through all the developments surrounding the digital prosthesis. Today the possibilities are endless, but the future will give us so many more options, I would like to open this window for you into the future. but also want to share the latest insight in client experience and my own personal experience of bringing digital dentures in to a high fashion shopping centre while being accessible for everyone…learn from the past and be prepäre for the future!

Learning outcomes aligned to GDC: 

C: Maintenance and development of knowledge and skill within your field of practice.

Objectives:

• Introduction to the system from 1970s original Gnathomat to introduction of the Stratos articulator and the full range of set up templates
• How BPS can help address the challenges facing clinicians and patients in this rapidly changing private landscape. It provides an easy way to upskill by learning a predictable and proven workflow for all of your private prosthetics.
• Truly understand all functions and adjustments of the hardware, including Stratos articulator and set up templates, what each feature does, when you should use them, and why
• Clear the confusion surrounding using a facebow in dentures, explain exactly why and when your patients will benefit from the fully personalised approach and when average values will be enough
• Choosing the right mould of teeth and optimum occlusal scheme for class 1/2/3 + when to use lingualised occlusion for best results
• Learn how to use BPS successfully for partial dentures
• Understanding how to fine tune denture occlusion in the mouth chairside for amazing stability & function
• Discuss whether BPS with Dr Abe SEMCD is indeed the ultimate denture solution?
• How best to use the BPS/SEMCD principles when using Ivotion Digital Denture System
• Understand how a real understanding of BPS can improve your CAD designs and overall success when creating digital dentures
• Learn how to use Ivosmile augmented reality software as well as photographs to design your prosthetics more accurately and reduce the risk of re-trys/alterations
• Give an in depth look at milling dentures on the Programill milling machine including the new Programill Dry
• How to use intra oral scanning to produce amazing Ivotion digital dentures in as little two appointments
• Learn how the BPS and Ivotion Digital Denture System can be successfully incorporated into your business
• Gain a better understanding of the questions surrounding analogue vs digital dentures…is there truly only one option for success or can we use a combination of the two?
• Learn how to achieve outstanding aesthetics using the SrNexco composite system on both analogue and digital dentures

The event is designed for those;

• Who are Dentists, Dental Technicians or Clinical Dental Technicians
• Educational establishments currently teaching Dentistry
• Who are wanting to move more into the private prosthetics sector (analogue & digital)
• Already using BPS but want to learn how to take their results to the next level
• Dental professionals who want to learn how to use the system in more detail and for more applications including CL II/III, partial dentures and implant prosthetics
• Who wish to understand the ways to fine tune their articulator to the patients individual measurements and record greater clinical and technical detail from their patients during your treatments
• Who are wishing to understand more about how BPS and digital dentures can be incorporated successfully into their own businesses
• Those who want to understand how to transfer their BPS knowledge into the Ivotion digital denture system for the greatest results

Verifiable CPD Hours - 14

Products covered (not an exhaustive list) Virtual Impression Materials, Centric Tray, Gnathometer-M Gothic arch tracing system, UTS 3D Transferbow, Programill milling machines, Vivascan intra oral scanner, UTS CAD, Gnathometer CAD, 3 Shape software, Stratos articulator and accessories.

This course is suitable for Dentists, Clinical Dental Technicians and Dental Technicians.