Regeneration Symposium SPEAKERS
Homa H. Zadeh, DDS, PhD
Dr. Zadeh is a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology and Implant Surgery. He earned his Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) degree from USC Ostrow School of Dentistry. He completed post-doctoral clinical training in periodontology, as well as a PhD degree in immunology, at
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the University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC) School of Dental Medicine and School of Medicine, respectively. Dr. Zadeh served as full time faculty for 28 years, earning tenure status at the University of Southern California. He also served as director of postdoctoral periodontology program (2012-2019). Dr. Zadeh is internationally recognized for his clinical and scientific expertise. He has lectured nationally and internationally in over 40 countries at prestigious conferences on topics ranging from aesthetics to minimally invasive periodontal and implant surgery, as well as tissue engineering. Dr. Zadeh has published over 100 journal articles in peer review journals, reviews, abstracts and book chapters.
Dr. Zadeh served as president of the Western Society of Periodontology (WSP) in 2017.
Dr. Zadeh is the innovator of the VISTA technique recognized around the world as one of the most effective methods for the treatment of soft tissue and bone deficiencies around teeth and implants. He has also innovated many concepts and devices, which have been patented and developed into products in clinical use in many countries.
Dr. Zadeh directs the VISTA Institute for Therapeutic Innovations, with blended educational pedagogy on a variety of clinically relevant topics. He maintains a private practice of periodontology and implant surgery in Southern California.
Vahid Khoshkam, DDS, MS
Vahid Khoshkam, DDS, is a remarkably accomplished board-certified periodontist with 20 years of experience practicing dentistry. At El Paso Periodontics & Implant Specialists in El Paso, Texas, Dr. Khoshkam provides individualized care to patients seeking a wide variety of treatment
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options. Dr. Khoshkam is a graduate of the prestigious University of Southern California (USC) advanced periodontology program where he received his specialty degree. He also earned a MS in Craniofacial Biology from USC. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology and has published numerous articles within the top-ranked dental journals in the world. Dr. Khoshkam lectures internationally, educating other dental practitioners. His expertise in the field has led him to become a leading author in periodontology, writing multiple chapters about the subject. Dr. Khoshkam is a peer reviewer for the Journal of Dental Research, one of the world’s most prestigious dental journals. His passion and dedication to his craft have led him to become one of the leading periodontists practicing in the field today.
Navid Sharifzadeh, DDS, MS
Navid Sharifzadeh, DDS MS, Periodontist, Dental implant surgeon, graduated from the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, CA, Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology and Implant Surgery, Visiting Scholar, Tehran University of Medical Sciences MSc in Craniofacial Biology.
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Book Chapters: Complex Dental Implant Complications, edited by Shahrokh C., Bagheri, Husain Ali Khan, Mark R. Stevens, Chapter 5: Aesthetic Dental Implant Complications. Hossein Behnia, Navid Sharifzadeh Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Reymond Fonseca, 2017, 3rd Edition. Volume 1. Chapter 34: Peri Implant Soft Tissue Augmentation Homayoun H. Zadeh, Diane Anthony-Costandi, Navid Sharifzadeh
Michael S. Block, DMD
Dr. Block graduated from the University of Rochester in 1975, attaining both a BA in Biology and a BS in Biomedical Engineering. He completed his dental training at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine in
1979, receiving his D.M.D. cum laude in a special field. He completed his residency
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program in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the LSU School of Dentistry in 1983. He remained at the LSU School of Dentistry and achieved the academic rank of Professor in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Currently, he is in private practice. Dr. Block is the editor-in-chief of five textbooks on dental implants, Endosseous Implants for Maxillofacial Reconstruction, Implants in Dentistry, Color Atlas of Dental Implant Surgery: the 4th edition was published in 2015. He is Past President of the Academy of Osseointegration, and has been program chairman for three of their annual programs. Dr. Block serves on the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS) Committee on Continuing Education as Chairman of the subcommittee on dental implants. Dr. Block has been an examiner for the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He is a Section Editor on Dental Implants for the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Dr. Block is particularly interested in the translation of technology for efficient and predictable reconstruction of the jaw to provide ideal bone for implant placement and esthetic replacement of missing teeth, the use of multiple techniques and implants to reconstruct significant atrophic conditions, and interceptive strategies for rehabilitating extraction sites with implant restorations. Hobbies and interests: Golf, skiing, road cycling, nutrition, science fiction, computer technology.
Richard J. Miron, DDS, MSc, PhD
Dr. Richard Miron is currently lead educator and researcher at Advanced PRF Education and an Adjunct Visiting Faculty in the department of Periodontology in Bern, Switzerland where he completed his PhD
studies since 2009. He has currently published over 300 peer-reviewed articles
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and lectures internationally on many topics relating to growth factors, bone biomaterials, and guided bone regeneration. For the past 5 years, Dr. Miron has been recognized by Dentistry Today as being one of the top 100 CE providers in the country and the youngest to ever make the list. He is also the top ranked researcher on Platelet-Rich Fibrin therapy as per Expertscape independent review. He has recently been awarded many international prizes in dentistry and is widely considered one of the top contributors to implant dentistry having won the ITI Andre Schroeder Prize, the IADR Young Investigator of the Year in the field of Implant Dentistry, as well as the IADR Socransky Research award in the field of Periodontology (2020). He has written 8 textbooks widely distributed in regenerative dentistry including his 2019 best seller, “Next Generation Biomaterials for Bone and Periodontal Regeneration” and his 2021 “Understanding Platelet Rich Fibrin.”
Thomas G. Wiedemann, MD, PhD, DDS
Thomas G. Wiedemann, MD, PhD, DDS, is currently a Clinical Associate Professor and full-time faculty member at New York University, College of Dentistry, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery. He is a Fellow of the European Board of Oral – Maxillofacial and Head Neck Surgery (EBOMFS) and has
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Diplomate status in the International Congress of Oral Implantologists (ICOI). Professor Wiedemann’s career consists of 27+ years of surgical and educational experience in an academic setting and successfully operating private practices, providing the full spectrum of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, but specialized in Implant Dentistry. Dr. Wiedemann is the author of a variety of peer reviewed publications and 2 book chapters. He has lectured extensively nationally and internationally, and conducted over 50 hands-on courses on oral surgery topics, implant and bone graft procedures. He serves on the editorial board of multiple peer reviewed scientific journals. Recently he accepted leadership as co-editor in chief for the Journal of Dentistry and Oral Sciences and as Editor in chief for Journal of Surgery and Surgical Procedures. His special research interests are: minimal invasive surgical techniques of the full scope of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and implant surgery, emergency care, ceramic implants, Titanium intolerance, peri-implantitis and implant failures, surgical complications management in implant dentistry and oral surgery. He has acquired extensive expertise in implant surgery with multiple implant systems (titanium and zirconia) since 1995 and with innovative concepts of alveolar ridge and soft tissue augmentation (intra- and extraoral autogenous bone grafts), piezoelectric- and robotic assisted surgery.
Vinay Bhide, B.ArtsSc.(Hons.), DDS, MSc (Perio.), FRCD(C)
Dr. Vinay Bhide is a Board Certified Periodontist, Diplomate, American Board of Periodontology, Clinical Instructor and Lecturer, Department of Periodontology, University of Toronto, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Periodontics, the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Vinay Bhide is
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a board-certified periodontis who provides the full scope of surgical periodontal and dental implant therapy. Dr. Bhide has a special interest in esthetic and reconstructive periodontics. Dr. Bhide completed his DDS and MSc in Periodontology at the University of Toronto. In addition to private practice, Dr. Bhide is a clinical instructor in the Graduate Periodontology Program at University of Toronto. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Periodontics at UPenn. Dr. Bhide has lectured nationally and internationally and published on various topics related to periodontics and implantology.
Seiko Min, DDS, PhD, MS
Dr. Seiko Min trained in Periodontics and Implant therapy in Japan and US. He is currently a director of the Preceptor Periodontics Program of School of Dentistry at the University of Texas at Houston. In 2009, he earned a PhD degree in bone biology at Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan
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and completed Advanced Periodontology and Implantology Residency Program at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California in 2014. He has received prestigious awards by the American Academy of Periodontology, Academy of Osseointegration, American Academy of Implant Dentistry, Osteology Foundation. In 2018, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Periodontics and Dental Hygiene at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. He has published many scientific peer reviewed papers and is an internationally renowned lecturer, best known for his work in the field of oral plastic surgery, “Gum Recession Therapy” utilizing innovative approach. Dr. Min’s research focuses on Tissue Engineering, as well as Clinical Research, including soft tissue graft, bone graft, regenerative therapies in Periodontics, and Implant Dentistry.
Bobby Birdi, BSc, DMD, MSc, Dip. Perio, Dip. Pros., FRCD(C), FACP, DABP
Dr. Birdi received his dental degree from the University of Saskatchewan and his post-graduate specialty training in both periodontics and prosthodontics from the University of Minnesota. He is a Fellow and previous Examiner for the Royal College of Dentists of Canada and a Diplomate of both
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the American Board of Periodontology and the American Board of Prosthodontics. Dr. Birdi is one of the very few board certified dual specialists in periodontics and prosthodontics in North America, and the first and only specialist in the world to attain board certification in these two specialties in both the USA and Canada. Dr. Birdi is the co-founder of the Digital Dentistry Institute which is a global learning organization for his fellow dentists and one of the largest dental educational organizations in Canada. He is also founder of the BC Perio Dental Health & Implant Centres in Vancouver which is one of the largest and most technologically advanced multi-specialty dental centers in Canada
Shi Yin
Shi Yin is an assistant professor of periodontics at Loma Linda University. She obtained her specialty training in periodontics at Columbia University and subsequently completed an implant fellowship at Loma Linda University. She is a
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Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology and implant dentistry. She has published several research articles in peer-reviewed journals. Her research focuses on Sinus augmentation as well as immediate implant placement and provisionalization.
John Kim, DMD, MS, PA
Dr. John Kim began his education by receiving his undergraduate degree with honors in Biology from the University of Virginia in 1999. He earned his D.M.D. degree from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine in 2003. In 2006, Dr. Kim earned his Masters
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of Science in Periodontology, as well as his Certificate of Advanced Study in Periodontology from the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Dentistry at Chapel Hill. Dr. Kim’s three-year residency emphasized dental implants, bone grafting, gum grafting, periodontal regeneration, sinus grafting, and cosmetic surgery. The UNC School of Dentistry has awarded him the Elsie & Baxter Sapp Fellowship and also nominated him as a candidate for the Kramer Award for Excellence in Periodontics. During his studies and training in dental school, Dr. Kim was actively involved in research. At Harvard, he collaborated with Dr. Lillian Carpio on implant survival and risk factors. At the UNC School of Dentistry, he collaborated with Drs. Stephen Offenbacher and David Paquette on the relationship between periodontal disease and heart disease. In 2007, he became board-certified and was awarded Diplomate status after being examined by a panel of internationally respected peers. Dr. Kim actively speaks as an expert on guided bone regeneration, implant therapy, periodontal laser therapy, and soft tissue grafting domestically and internationally. In addition, he enjoys teaching hands-on courses focusing on regenerative therapy.
DENTAL HYGIENE & PREVENTATIVE CARE Speakers
William Paveletz, DMD
Dr. William Paveletz, DMD, is a graduate of Temple University School of Dentistry. Upon receiving his DMD degree he completed a one-year general practice residency at the University of Pittsburgh and continued studying prosthetics at the
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Graduate Department of Pittsburgh Dental School. Currently, he is one of VOCO’s North America Clinical Directors of Continuing Education. He lectures nationally internationally to dental retailers, dental societies, and teaching institutions. Dr. Paveletz has been published in various dental trade publications regarding temporization techniques with dental implants, treating geriatric patients, and fluoridation usage in adolescences. He has a true passion for preventative and restorative dentistry, with an emphasis on biocompatibility and holistic dentistry. His hands-on workshops focus on topics ranging from dental coding and billing, hygiene, esthetic dentistry, fixed and removable prosthetics, and nano and remover technology.
Heather Rogers, RDH
Heather M. Rogers began her career in dental hygiene in 1999 when she graduated from the College of Southern Nevada. She has worked in prosthodontics, periodontics, and general dentistry. Heather discovered her love for presenting educational courses
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while achieving her bachelor’s degree and being involved with her professional
association. She completed her Bachelor of Science in Dental Hygiene in 2010 and is currently providing continuing
education for professionals in communications, diabetes, implant maintenance, probiotics, and infection control.
Tricia Osuna, BSDH, RDH, FAADH
Tricia Osuna, is a University of Southern California graduate, Past President of the American Academy of Dental Hygiene
and California Dental Hygienists’ Association. Tricia is in her 44th year as a dental hygienist, with many of those as a
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clinician. She shares her experiences with her audiences in a humorous and enlightening presentation experience. Ms.
Osuna is a lifelong CDHA/ ADHA member and a previous Member of the Dental Board of California. She is a Founding
Member of the American Board of Facial Esthetics. Licensed in both California and New York, her experiences traverse the
dental hygiene arena in a unique way spanning a variety of roles including Consultant, Clinician, Educator, International
Presenter, Author, Mentor, as well as owner of Professional Insights.