To conclude the annual World Medical Case Contest 2022–2023 for college kids of dentistry, eleven finalists from eleven nations offered their case research of clinically difficult restorations utilizing Dentsply Sirona merchandise. A global jury chosen 4 winners, who had been just lately honored on the Dentsply Sirona website in Konstanz, Germany.
The 2022-2023 World Medical Case Contest included 260 college students from 90 dental faculties around the globe. They first offered their restorations to an area jury. The winners of the regional competitions then took half within the closing in Konstanz in entrance of a world jury consisting of Dr. Ian Cline, dentist at King’s School (United Kingdom), Prof. Dr. Gaetano Paolone of the College of Milan (Italy) and Dr. Frank Pfefferkorn, Senior Medical Analysis Supervisor at Dentsply Sirona.
Every of the eleven finalists gave a short presentation of their difficult instances wherein they handled sufferers with restorative supplies from Dentsply Sirona to provide them an exquisite, radiant smile.
Margherita Feliciotti of the College of Siena, Italy, received the competitors. She offered a big anterior tooth restoration for which she used the common adhesive Prime&Bond energetic and the composite Ceram.x Spectra ST with SphereTEC filler expertise in varied opacities and viscosities.
Second place went to Catharina Glose of the College of Göttingen. She offered the case of a affected person who requested improved esthetics with a composite restoration of the anterior enamel from 12 to 22 following orthodontic therapy. The supplies used had been the Etch&Rinse adhesive Prime&Bond XP, Ceram.x Spectra ST in CLOUD shades and the Ceram.x Spectra ST Results supplies D1 and E1.
Two finalists shared third place: Ahmed Kamal of the October College for Trendy Sciences and Arts (MSA), Egypt, was awarded a prize for an esthetically difficult restoration for a male affected person within the area 14 to 17 utilizing the common adhesive Prime&Bond Common, the Palodent V3 matrix system and Spectra ST. Yu-Fang Huang of the Nationwide Cheng Kung College, Taiwan, China, acquired the award for a case wherein a juvenile incisor was restored. She used Prime&Bond Common and Spectrum TPH3 within the shades A1 and A3.5.
The finalists and their tutors appreciated the invitation from Dentsply Sirona to fulfill in particular person in Konstanz. Everybody considered the competitors as an thrilling alternative to show their expertise, evaluate them with different college students and current their case to a panel of specialists. Margherita Feliciotti gratefully acquired the award and stated, “It’s actually a privilege to have the ability to participate in a contest like this and to win is solely an unimaginable feeling. After I work with sufferers, I at all times take the time to provide them a top quality, esthetically pleasing final result and utilizing the wonderful merchandise from Dentsply Sirona with their nice design choices, enabled me to do precisely that for the affected person on this case. Seeing the affected person with a radiant smile made all the trouble value it. After which successful the prize – I couldn’t want for extra.” Her tutor Giulio Pavolucci, who took half within the competitors as soon as himself, was additionally delighted.
The finalists of the World Medical Case Contest got engaging prizes along with the invitation to Konstanz.
“As organizers of the competitors for future dentists, we’re more than happy concerning the nice curiosity and prime quality of the entries submitted,” stated Dr. Frank Pfefferkorn. “By way of its in depth cooperation with universities all through the world, Dentsply Sirona promotes the event of progressive coaching applications with state-of-the-art supplies and applied sciences. The outcomes are spectacular. The purpose stays to help future dentists in offering their sufferers with the absolute best therapy. Congratulations to all winners!”
The Dentsply Sirona World Medical Case Contest has been happening since 2004/2005. The competitors is geared toward dental college students with lower than two years of scientific follow. The contributors doc their case utilizing textual content and pictures and are supported by a tutor from their college.
Functions for the GCCC 2023–2024 can now be submitted. Additional data on the Dentsply Sirona World Medical Case Contest is accessible right here.
