Sunday, October 5, 2025

Part 1 | 8:30 - 10:05 a.m.

• Introduction (McLeod)
• Treatment of complicated mandibular fractures: comminuted / compromised bone / edentulous, continuity defects (García)
• Condylar fractures – decision-making and conservative management (Lie)
• Condylar fractures – ORIF: access and fixation (Laraway)

Part 2 | 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

• NOE fractures and fractures of the frontal sinus: canthal repair / lacrimal repair / sinus management (Lauer)
• Management of panfacial fractures: sequencing / approaches (de Lange)
• Paediatric trauma (van Minnen)
• Ballistic injuries, early, and secondary management (Powers)

Part 3 | 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.

• Advances in orbital trauma management: 3D planning / materials / custom plates / navigation (Marí Roig)
• Session 1: live planning workshop / case discussion (Faculty)

Part 4 | 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.

• Session 2: live planning workshop / case discussion (Faculty)

Monday, October 6, 2025

Part 1 | 8:30 - 10:00 a.m.

• Introduction to the course day (Monje)
• Overview of temporomandibular disorders (Saeed)
• Diagnosis, tips, and imaging of the TMJ (Monje)
• Arthrocentesis (Gerber)
• Arthroscopy (Level I) (Monje)

Part 2 | 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

• Therapeutic arthroscopy (Level II and III)
• Complications in minimally invasive surgery (Gonzalez-Garcia)
• Open surgery of the TMJ (Talvilahti)

Part 3 | 1:00 - 3:30 p.m.

• Diagnosis and management of condyle hyperactivity (Spijkervet)
• Management of TMJ dislocation (Undt)
• Complications of TMJ surgery (Gerber)
• Autogenous reconstruction and paediatric considerations (Saeed)
• Indications for a TMJ prosthesis (Spijkervet)
• Principles of TMJ replacement (Ho)
• Orthognathic surgery and TMJ replacement (Saeed)

Part 4 | 4:00 - 6:30 p.m.

• Clinical cases
  • Internal derangement
  • Pediatric or TMJ reconstruction in orthognathic surgery
• Case-based discussions on cases in 3 small, rotating groups
  • DDwoR management
  • Paediatric ankylosis
  • Synovial chondromatosis

Get together dinner at KLS Martin WORLD | 6:30 - 9:30 p.m.

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Part 1 | 8:30 - 10:00 a.m.

• Welcome by the faculty (Starch-Jensen)
• Contemporary preprosthetic reconstruction
  • Indications and controversies in preprosthetic reconstruction (Terheyden)
  • Autogenous bone graft versus bone substitutes (Starch-Jensen)
  • Intraoral autogenous bone graft harvesting (Basa)
  • Extraoral autogenous bone graft harvesting from the iliac crest and calvarium (Mertens)
  • Soft and hard tissue augmentation in the aesthetic zone (Raghoebar)

Part 2 | 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

• Alveolar ridge augmentation of the atrophic posterior maxilla (Starch-Jensen)
• Zygomatic implants (Mertens)
• Alveolar ridge augmentation of the atrophic posterior mandible (Terheyden)
• Prosthetic rehabilitation with short implants (Raghoebar)

Part 3 | 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.

• 4 breakout sessions 
• Novel strategies in preprosthetic reconstruction
  • Guided implant placement (Sjöström)
  • PRF and biomolecules (Stadlinger)
  • Patient-specific implants (Terheyden)
  • Tissue engineering using stem cells and artificial scaffolds (Gjerde)

Part 4 | 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.

• Hands-on training (rotation 3 stations per 30 mins)
  • Harvesting of intraoral bone block graft and osteosynthesis
  • Harvesting of iliac bone block graft - alternatively: posterior ramus graft
  • Distraction osteogenesis of the alveolar ridge

Factory tour | 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Part 1 | 8:30 - 10:45 a.m.

• Welcome and introduction of the faculty (Beck-Broichsitter)
• Principles of composite soft tissue reconstruction in the head and neck region (Copelli / Kreutzer)
• Reconstruction of the anterior mandible (Kesting)
• Recontruction of the ramus +/- TMJ (Hoffmann)
• The subscapular system: indications for composite flaps (Schliephake)

Part 2 | 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

• Bone composite reconstruction: fibula vs. scapula vs. DCIA (Beck-Broichsitter / Kesting)
• Reconstruction in congenital deformities (Gaggl)
• Postoperative care: flap monitoring modalities, complication management,
  revision surgery (Visavadia)

Part 3 | 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.

• Workshop on digital planning
  • Challenges to reconstruction: things to consider (KLS Engineer)
  • Introduction to the model workshop (Beck-Broichsitter)
  • Model workshop: reconstruction of the mandible with fibula-flap and PSI

Part 4 | 3:45 - 5:45 p.m.

• Small group discussion (max. 10-15 per group, 25 min. per case)
  • Case 1: reconstruction of the mandible (Hoffmann / Kesting)
  • Case 2: reconstruction of the maxilla (Schliephake / Ristow)
  • Case 3: reconstruction of the midface/nose (Gaggl / Kreutzer)
  • Case 4: reconstruction pedicled flap(s) (Visavadia / Copelli)
• Wrap-up (Beck-Broichsitter)

Thursday, October 9, 2025

Part 1 | 08:30 - 10:10 a.m. 

• Welcome by the moderators (Haers)
• Embryology, face development, prenatal diagnostics, aetiology (Bergé)
• Primary lip surgery, uni- and bilateral (Bergé)
• Primary palate closure (Lethaus)
• VPI and speech surgery (Nagy)
• Presurgical orthodontics and naso-alveolar moulding: mandatory? (Meazzini)

Part 2 | 10:30 a.m. - 12:10 p.m. 

• Osteoplasty in CLP (Kessler)
• Orthodontic options in the adolescent cleft patient (Meazzini)
• Orthognathic surgery in cleft patients (Haers)

Part 3 | 1:00 - 2:20 p.m. 

• Afternoon session: distraction osteogenesis, craniofacial surgery, and micrognathia
  • Distraction in cleft patients (Bianchi)
  • Monobloc osteotomy (Khonsari)
  • Open approaches in craniosynostosis (Engel)
  • Endoscopic approaches in craniosynosthosis (Nienhuijs)

Part 4 | 2:50 - 5:00 p.m. 

• Management of paediatric micrognathia (Bianchi)
• Craniofacial microsomia (Saeed)
• Interceptive distraction in hemifacial microsomia (Meazzini)
• Ear reconstruction in microsomia (Hennedige)
• Virtual Reality and AI in cleft and craniofacial surgery (Bergé / Wael)

Transfer to social dinner location | 5:00 p.m. 

Friday, October 10, 2025

Part 1 | 8:30 - 10:20 a.m.

• Welcome and introduction to the faculty / course description (Trevisiol)
• Modern goals in orthognathic surgery (Trevisiol)
• The transverse dimension: ortho planning
• Profile planning: the role of incisors decompensation (Senoisian)
• Planning asymmetry (van Riet)

Part 2 | 10:40 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.

• Surgical technique
  • BSSO: my personal technique (Swennen)
  • BSSO: my personal technique (Trevisiol)
  • LFI/MSLFI: my personal technique (Guijarro Martinez)
  • LFI/MSLFI: my personal technique (Kühle)

Part 3 | 1:10 - 3:20 p.m.

• Auxillary procedures: chin plasty, mandibular recontouring, malar plasty (Dowgierd)
• Condylectomy: surgical options (Becking)
• PSI: indications to their use in daily practice (Olejnik)
• Airways and orthognathic surgery (Tuz)
• Virtual planning: key points for success (Swennen)

Part 4 | 3:40 - 5:25 p.m. 

• Case presentation step by step (Senoisian / Guijarro Martinez)
• Disasters from the masters (Dowgierd)
• BSSO complications (Becking)
• MSLFI complications (Trevisiol)

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