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Dr Roy Sabri is an adjunct professor at the American University of Beirut and maintains a private practice. He is the founding former Chairman of the Orthodontic Department at the Lebanese University: 1986-1993. He earned his dental degree at Saint Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon, and his Orthodontic Master’s degree at Northwestern University, Chicago. Dr Sabri is an international speaker, he gave over 180 lectures and courses worldwide and has published more than 45 refereed journal articles.
How Orthodontics can Enhance Restorative Outcomes
More and more patients are seeking treatment today to improve their facial appearance. Under the pressure of advertisements full of promises for quick fix solutions, clinicians often rush for “instant smile” design. Teeth are aggressively prepared for all ceramic crowns and porcelain veneers to correct structural damage as well as orthodontic discrepancies at the expense of healthy tooth structure, function and long-term outcome. This lecture will show how merging restorative dentistry and orthodontics can facilitate treatment and solve esthetics challenges in a most conservative and cost-effective approach.
Learning objectives
- Recognize how orthodontics can facilitate restorative dentistry
- Learn how to merge orthodontics and restorative dentistry in patients with challenging conditions
- Develop a well-coordinated interdisciplinary orthodontic-restorative treatment approach
Smile Analysis and Treatment Strategies
Dentists are constantly looking for guidelines as to what the perfect smile should be. A pleasing smile directly depends on the relations between teeth and lips, their integration in a harmonious facial composition, and the quality of the dental and gingival elements it contains. This lecture will describe eight components for a balanced smile as guides to smile analysis and treatment. These smile components are: the lip line, the smile arc, the upper lip curvature, smile symmetry, the occlusal line, the dental and gingival components. Clinical situations in which one or more components of the smile are affected will be shown. It will also describe how orthodontics alone or in combination with other disciplines can optimize the smile.
Learning objectives
- Get familiar with the various components of a balanced smile
- Recognize the impact of these components on smile esthetics
- Learn to develop individual interdisciplinary treatment strategies to optimize patients smiles