Dental Asia May/June 2020
For more than two decades, Dental Asia is the premium journal in linking dental innovators and manufacturers to its rightful audience. We devote ourselves in showcasing the latest dental technology and share evidence-based clinical philosophies to serve as an educational platform to dental professionals. Our combined portfolio of print and digital media also allows us to reach a wider market and secure our position as the leading dental media in the Asia Pacific region while facilitating global interactions among our readers.
For more than two decades, Dental Asia is the premium journal in linking dental innovators
and manufacturers to its rightful audience. We devote ourselves in showcasing the latest dental technology and share evidence-based clinical philosophies to serve as an educational platform to dental professionals. Our combined portfolio of print and digital media also allows us to reach a wider market and secure our position as the leading dental media in the Asia Pacific region while facilitating global interactions among our readers.
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Under the Spotlight<br />
“This is important because if your programme<br />
always stays the same, your content is no<br />
longer state-of-the-art,” he stated.<br />
Moreover, with the course being evidencebased<br />
and free from sponsorship from<br />
manufacturers, there is greater freedom in<br />
selecting the materials as students can use<br />
any implant, abutment, membrane, bone<br />
substitute material and planning software<br />
of their choice and decide what works best<br />
for them.<br />
As part of the Master in Oral Implantology, students learn how to identify and deal with errors<br />
in scientific publications<br />
Implantology at Goethe University, Dr. Weigl<br />
has to ensure that the strategic objectives<br />
are in placed to equip his students with<br />
the necessary skills and knowledge such<br />
as ensuring the course is patient-centric,<br />
providing evidence-based teaching, and<br />
ensuring it meets the relevant needs of the<br />
students, even taking in feedback from them.<br />
To ensure the course provides the relevant<br />
needs and knowledge for his students,<br />
Dr Weigl takes in their feedback with serious<br />
considerations. Through these feedback, the<br />
course has broadened to include CAD/CAM,<br />
guided surgery, soft-tissue management as<br />
well as bone management.<br />
Creating an international platform<br />
Dr. Weigl has always felt that language<br />
barriers should not stymie exchanges in<br />
education. “In the past, only a Chinese<br />
implantologist who can speak English would<br />
have the opportunity to study in Europe,”<br />
he said.<br />
To make the course attractive to international<br />
students such as the Chinese, Dr Weigl flew<br />
to Shanghai for 10 days with his faculty<br />
to give lectures, which were translated<br />
simultaneously into Mandarin. In fact, some<br />
of Dr. Weigl’s professor friends in Beijing<br />
were also roped in to help integrate the<br />
lessons seamlessly.<br />
For instance, students will hear an approach<br />
to soft-tissue management on one day, and<br />
a different one the next.<br />
“This is absolutely intentional. I want them<br />
to know that there is not just one approach,”<br />
he revealed.<br />
This is done so because, “If you’re an expert<br />
on the all-on-four treatment concept, which<br />
was originally designed for edentulous<br />
cases, and a patient comes in with some<br />
residual teeth with no indications for<br />
extraction, there are other therapy concepts<br />
such as implant bridges and crowns. But<br />
if you extract all the teeth just to adapt<br />
the patient to your therapy concept then<br />
something is very wrong here,” he explained.<br />
MAY / JUNE <strong>2020</strong> DENTAL ASIA 19
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