Scholarship Center
Clinic for Fixed & Removable Prosthodontics and Dental Material Science
The Clinic for Fixed & Removable Prosthodontics has over 15 years of experience in treating patients using osseointegrated implants. About 190 patients were treated in the year 2005 involving 400 implants. The majority of these patients were partially edentulous and comprehensively treated in all disciplines of dental medicine by the faculty and the post-graduate students of the clinic. Many patients desire optimal esthetic treatment results and, hence, a special emphasis of the clinic`s activities is placed on esthetic aspects of the treatment. More than two thirds of the implantation procedures are performed in conjunction with bone and/or soft tissue augmentation using GBR and resorbable biomaterials or bone grafts.
Research is carried out in different field encompassing bone and soft tissue regeneration, implant integration into hard and soft tissues, loading protocols including immediate loading, conventional and full-ceramic reconstructions, and basic research in dental material science (Dres. Ronald Jung, Irena Sailer, Christain Ramel, Jens Fischer).
ITI Scholars at our clinic are able to learn about all phases of comprehensive therapy in dental medicine with implants including treatment planning, execution of preparatory, surgical and prosthetic as well as follow-up therapy. They have the chance to observe all these aspects in the surgical and dental operatories, but have no option to treat patients of their own. The ITI Scholars are further involved in continuing education courses of the clinic on surgical and prosthetic topics of implant dentistry. Research activities as co-investigators in the above-mentioned fields are encouraged.
Prof. Dr. Christoph Hämmerle
Chairman of the Scholarship Program
Clinic for Fixed & Removable Prosthodontics
and Dental Material Science Center for Dental and Oral Medicine and
Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery
University of Zurich
Plattenstrasse 11
8028 Zurich
Switzerland
e-mail: hammerle
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