Dr Edwin Eggink

Drs. E. Eggink, endodontist

Edwin finished his dental school at ACTA Amsterdam in 1994 and continued with the 3-year post-graduate training in endodontics. Until 2009 Edwin combined a general practice with a referral practice in endodontics. In 2009 he founded EndoRotterdam, a practice strictly limited to endodontics. In the years following a interdisciplinary planning with periodontists, restorative dentists etc., culminated in the esthablishment of Proclin Rotterdam.

Edwin gives courses, lectures and publishes on the relationship between endodontics and autotransplants.

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