SPEAKER: Brunello Giulia, DDS, PhD Habil

TITLE: Two-piece zirconia implants supporting all-ceramic single crowns. A 9-year follow-up study.

SUMMARY

Zirconia dental implants are attracting increasing attention worldwide as an alternative to titanium implants for the replacement of missing teeth. They have recently gained popularity with the growing demand for aesthetics and metal-free solutions and their spread is expected to increase hereafter. 

The evolution of ceramic implants was determined in early years by the predominant development of one-piece zirconia implants, while two-piece zirconia implants were introduced more recently in the market. As a consequence, their late development reflects in the scarcity of long-term clinical studies.

A previous prospective cohort study conducted at the Department of Oral Surgery of the University Hospital of Düsseldorf evaluated the short-term clinical outcomes of two-piece zirconia implants placed in the posterior jaws supporting monolithic all-ceramic single crowns. Taking into account the importance of providing long-term data on two-piece zirconia implants, a new study was designed aiming to investigate the clinical outcomes in the aforementioned patient cohort after 9 years of follow-up.

Short CV

Brunello Giulia, DDS, PhD Habil

ORCID: 0000-0003-1436-0085

Dr. Brunello graduated with honours at the University of Padova (Italy) in 2011, and completed her doctoral thesis working on donor age-related biological properties of dental pulp stem cells. After a 1-year course in Oral Surgery at the University of Padova, she joined the 2-year Master of Oral Implantology at the same University. In 2016 she won the scholarship from the International Team for Implantology, which sponsored a 1-year Scholarship at QMUL, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, The Royal London Dental Hospital (UK). In March 2020 she obtained her PhD at the PhD School in Mechatronics and Product Innovation Engineering at the University of Padova.

Since 2019 she teaches “Fundamentals of Research Methodology in Dentistry" at the School of Dentistry of University of Padova. In March 2021 she joined the Department of Oral Surgery of the University of Düsseldorf as a post-doc researcher. Since April 2024 she also has been collaborating with Charité – Berlin University Medicine.

Dr. Brunello is a member of the Young Scientific Board of the Italian Society of Regenerative Medicine and Surgery (SIMCRI). She is a Communication Committee member of the European Association for Osseointegration (EAO), a Research Submission Committee member of the Academy of Osseointegration (AO) and the Secretary/Treasurer of the Stem Cell Biology Group of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR).

She is author of more than 50 publications in international peer-reviewed journals. She has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of the journal Clinical and Experimental Dental Research and she is part of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Clinical Periodontology. Her major fields of interest are biomaterials, peri-implantitis, tissue engineering and stem cells in dental implant therapy and bone augmentation procedures.