Why demography urges us to change the restorative concept in pediatric dentistry?
7th Global Dentists and Pediatric Dentistry Annual Meeting
March 31- April 01, 2016 Valencia, Spain

Ivo Krejci

University of Geneva, Switzerland

Keynote: Oral Health Dent Manag

Abstract:

Newborn children will live almost hundred years in many countries and they will like to keep their own natural dentition for a lifetime. The challenge of modern dentistry is to cope with this expectation. The lecture will focus on a concept which aims to avoid tooth extractions during the entire life of the patient and within which laser-assisted pediatric dentistry plays a key role.

Biography :

Ivo Krejci graduated from University of Basel, Switzerland and received his Dr. Med. Dent. degree in 1986 and his Privatdozent (Switzerland) in 1993 from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He is a fellow of the Academy of Dental Materials and has a postgraduate specialization diploma of the Swiss Society of Preventive and Restorative Dentistry. He is past president of the Swiss Society of Preventive and Restorative Dentistry, past president of the Academy of Operative Dentistry European Section, past Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Dental Research and member of several associations. He has published over 280 articles and book chapters on restorative concepts, esthetics, posterior composites, tooth colored adhesive inlays, onlays and adhesive slot bridges, light curing, adhesion, glass ionomers, base materials, finishing techniques, compomers and lasers and is the author of three textbooks. He has supervised more than 60 doctoral theses and has lectured on numerous international scientific meetings and continuing education courses. He is currently Ordinary Professor and Chairman of the Division of Cariology and Endodontology, Director of the Department of Preventive Dentistry and Primary Dental Care and President of the Section of Dental Medicine at University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Email: ivo.krejci@unige.ch