Sometimes things go wrong, even in modern dentistry

Instructors: Tom de Wit, Frederick Hendrickx In a dental world of ever-increasing modern techniques and aesthetic masterpieces, everything seems to go like clockwork. At conferences, courses, and on social media platforms like Facebook and LinkedIn, we’re bombarded with the most fantastic technical and aesthetic results involving implants, crowns, bridges, and even endodontics. In these feel-good demonstration treatments, it almost seems as if nothing ever goes wrong and that the perfect result is always achieved at the end of the treatment. However, nothing could be further from the truth. In this course, we’d like to show you the other side of the coin—the side you usually don’t get to see. We believe, in fact, that you can learn the most from failures and setbacks—after all, failure is the first step toward success. Sometimes there’s a crystal-clear reason why a treatment didn’t succeed; other times, it’s a mystery. Using case studies, we’ll take you through real-world scenarios and discuss how and why things went wrong, as well as how solutions might be found for mistakes or unfortunate complications in modern dentistry.

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