Manfred Leunisse
Manfred Leunisse finished his dental studies in 1987 at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. In 1989 he started his orthodontic post-graduate training at the ACTA in Amsterdam. He finished his post-graduate training in 1993. Since then he started his private practice as an orthodontist in Rotterdam. Besides treating orthodontic patients he gives post-graduate courses for dentists as well.
The last 18 years his field of interest shifted to the treatment of patients in an interdisciplinair team approach( Proclin) with dental colleagues, periodontogists, endodontologist, restorative dentists, oral surgeons and dental technicians. A corollary of this was that he asked Dick Barendregt in 2003 if he was willing to start doing tooth-transplantations for him. And the rest is history.
His fields of interest are dental traumata, tooth wear and congenitally dental anomalies.
Dental Trauma, an interdisciplinary approach.
When confronted with dental trauma, agenesis of teeth or tooth impaction in patients with developing bone structures, replacement of teeth presents challenges. Providing options for the patients having an optimal functional and aesthetically pleasing replacement which adapts in time to the development of the patient, are limited. The choice for tooth autotransplantation is part of an interdisciplinary treatment planning. It is mandatory for an optimal treatment planning, to select the appropriate patient and the donor tooth, as well as to monitor successful healing and to establish normal occlusion after transplantation. Different specialists are involved in the team including an orthodontist, an endodontist, a periodontist or an oral surgeon and a restorative dentist or pedodontist. Based on well documented cases over the last 20 years the different choices to replace teeth after dental trauma will be presented.
After this lecture you will be able to:
1) describe the process for tooth transplantation
2) name ten advantages of tooth transplantation
3) describe the preconditions and indications of tooth transplantation
4) make the correct choice for endodontic treatment concerning tooth transplantation
5) describe the development of the endodontium and periodontium after transplantation