Dr. Norbert Haßfurther,

Germany

1982 License to practice medicine
1985 License to practice dentistry
1991 Specialist in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Senior Physician at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Gießen
1994 Establishment of own private practice
2010 Membership in the ECDI (European Centers of Dental Implantology)

Background to Presentation

– For about 30 years, I have been applying the technique of guided bone regeneration with non-resorbable titanium reinforced ePTFE-membranes to cause bone augmentation
– This enables me to entirely work without bone block grafts and without bone substitutes
– For about 15 years I, furthermore, combine the GBR- and GTR-techniques to reconstruct the periodontium of teeth adjacent to implants
– Since 11 years, I have been applying this technique to reconstructive periimplantitis therapy

– Numbers of implants inserted: 1200 per year
– Cases of GBR-technique: 500 per year