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Dr. Diana Boangar

WHO'S BAAD: An Interdisciplinary Ortho-Prosthetic Thriller Story

FRIDAY 30TH JANUARY TIME: 14:15 - 15:15
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AboutThe Speaker

Dr. Elia Diana Boangar graduated the "I.Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj-Napoca in 2006, and in 2010 she finished her Master's degree in Orthodontics in Cluj-Napoca and Bordeaux, France. Ever since, she has been exclusively practicing orthodontics in Cluj-Napoca and Zalau. In 2015 she became part of the "Learning by Doing" multidisciplinary educational platform, which advocates for solid professional and ethical principles in dentistry. Apart from her private practice, she likes to share her experience and advocate for the integration of interdisciplinarity in the protocols of complex treatment planning. She lectures nationally and internationally on the subjects of skeletal anchorage and interdisciplinary treatment of adult patients, emphasising the importance of properly sequencing orthodontic, periodontal and restorative treatment. She also published articles related to interdisciplinary orthodontics in international peer-reviewed journals. She is speaking for GC Orthodontics, and an active member of World Federation of Orthodontists, American Association of Orthodontists and European Orthodontic Society.

Abstract

Interdisciplinary collaborations have been proven to bring aesthetic, functional and structural advantages from straightforward to complex cases. The result of such approaches is usually the minimal invasiveness of the final prosthetic restorations. When things go smoothly, everyone is winning; the patients, the prosthodontist and the orthodontist. But what happens when things don't go exactly according to plan? Who's to blame? We know that failing is part of our process of becoming better doctors. The way we deal with our own failures can guide our growth or our self-sufficiency. So it's better to approach errors with honesty, critical thinking and resilience. The lecture will present a time-proven, systematic clinical protocol for ortho-prosthetic collaboration and illustrate the long-term advantages it brings to solving complex cases. It will also show different failures in interdisciplinary cases, what went wrong, what could have been prevented, and what we learned from them.

LearningAims & Objectives

  • Illustrate a time-proven, efficient clinical protocol of ortho-prosthetic collaboration.
  • Underline main clinical mistakes that may be encountered in interdisciplinary cases.
  • Show patient-related factors that may make the difference between long-term successes and failures.
  • Facilitate audience educations in clinical failures by showing how they could have been prevented and what was learned from the experience.