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implants2_2010 _The large number of participants (40 in total) who attended DGZI’s (German Association of Dental Implantology) weekend course “Anatomy” in early October2009inDresdenhasclearlyshownthatmany colleagues want to be kept up to date about research inthisfield,inordertomaketherightprofessionalde- cisions. This course is now also offered in English. Thanks to the clearly-structured concept and a theoretical introduction (an impressive demonstra- tionincludingalivevideobroadcastfromthedissect- ing room and patient-side practices using human specimens), the participants obtained the profes- sional skills needed by practicing surgeons and im- plantologists in only two days. A specially designed DGZI course module for anatomy has already been part of the Implantology curriculum for one decade. In particular, colleagues whoonlywanttorefreshtheiranatomicalknowledge inatwo-dayprofessionaltrainingcoursecanregister for the current weekend course—ideal for colleagues whomayhave realizedthattwoyearsaftertheirstate examinationtheyarenolongerabletorecalltheenor- mous knowledge required. Consequently there were manyguestparticipantswhotookpartintheImplan- tology curriculum. The contributions of anatomist Dr med. habil. Wolfgang Schwab of TU Dresden, oral biologist and anatomist Prof Dr Werner Götz of the University of Bonn, dissection assistant Ute Nimtschke, implantologists Dr Rainer Valentin and DrRolfVollmer,andoralsurgeonsDrMartinaVollmer and Dr Uta Voigt meant that the course was in com- petent hands as well as ensuring that the different points of view of the various disciplines were consid- ered. The first day of the course was dedicated to a thoroughintroductiontotheanatomyoftheskull,in- cluding an exact demonstration of the supply for nerves and blood vessels and the anatomy of bones, tongue,throatandlarynx.Inordertoexplainthepar- ticularsurgicalbasics,thespeakersdemonstratedthe procedures used for autologous and xenogenous augmentation and those for bone spreading. The highlight of the day was the application by Dr med. habil.SchwabandProfDrGötztheoreticallyobtained knowledge to an actual anatomical specimen. Cour- tesy of certain modern techniques, including the videobroadcastfromthedissectingroom,thepartic- ipants could ask questions in real time during the presentation. The second day of the course started again with a theoretical introduction—this time Dr Rolf Vollmer introduced the different implanto- logical techniques. The sponsoring companies (Geistlich, mectron, Schütz, Zepf) explained the fea- tures of all of the instruments and working materials which they had provided so that the participants could practice the acquired techniques with them. Towards the end, Dr Schwab and Dr Valentin demon- strated an autologous bone removal from the iliac crest. This highly successful professional training weekendwascompletedefficientlyandtohighstan- dard. All participants agreed that a follow-up of this course should take place in October 2010._ DGZI’s anatomy weekend a full success! Author_Dr Christian Ehrensberger, Germany

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