CONTINUING EDUCATION – CONFERENCE OF 16 APRIL 2027
On Friday 16 April 2027, the third conference for orthodontists, dentists and postgraduate students in orthodontics will take place in Paudex, near Lausanne.
The Olsburgh Smile Foundation will welcome Prof. Tung Nguyen, DMD, MS, Hale Endowed Professor, Program Director, Department of Orthodontics, University of North Carolina (USA) to speak on the following topics:
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How far can we move teeth: the Envelope of Discrepancy revisited;
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Class III and Class II orthopaedics with skeletal anchorage;
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Regenerating bone through an interdisciplinary approach with autotransplantation: and
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Fundamentals of Aligners and complex hybrid treatment.
Registrations will open in January 2027.
CONTINUING EDUCATION – CONFERENCE OF 4 APRIL 2025
The second conference for orthodontists, dentists and postgraduates in orthodontics was held on Friday 4 April 2025 at the Centre Patronal in Paudex. The Olsburgh Smile Foundation welcomed Prof Greg J. Huang, DMD, MSD, MPH, Kokich-Shapiro Endowed Professor, Head of the Department of Orthodontics, Associate Dean for Faculty at the University of Washington (USA), who traveled from Seattle especially for this event. He captivated the large audience who came to listen to him on the following topics:
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Evidence-based Orthodontics
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White spot lesions
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Anterior Openbite: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Stability
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Aligners: Past, Present and Future & Aligner Controversies (Sequential Distalization, Molar Intrusion and Alveolar Bone Loss)
The program, the presentation of the speaker and the abstracts are available here, as well as an outline with the key points of the conference:
An overview of the conference was featured in a press article in French and German:
You will also find below a few pictures taken at the event:
CONTINUING EDUCATION – OPENING EVENT OF 15 DECEMBER 2023
The Opening Event of the Olsburgh Smile Foundation of 15 December 2023 was a big success! About 80 participants came to pay tribute to Steven and to benefit from the top-level conference by Professor Glenn T. Sameshima.
This day of continuing education was dedicated to dentists, orthodontists and postgraduates in orthodontics with a prestigious speaker: Professor Dr. Glenn T. Sameshima, DDS, PhD, head of the Department of Orthodontics at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, USA). The following topics were presented:
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Clinical management of root resorptions in orthodontics
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The symbiosis between orthodontic and periodontal treatment
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Immersive 3D and virtual reality applications in orthodontics
Thank you to our fantastic speaker not only as a person who was very dear to Steven, but also as a leading authority in the world of orthodontics.
A special word of thanks also goes to the Société Vaudoise des Médecins-Dentistes who helped us with the organisation of the event.
We announced during this Opening Event that the Foundation will hold a continuing education programme with high quality speakers (probably every other year). For 2024, the priority will be to organise education/training of dental assistants working or wishing to work in orthodontic practices. For students, the Foundation is planning to sponsor on a regular basis a student from a Swiss University to go to USC on an informal 1-week exchange programme.
The program, the presentation of the speaker and the abstracts are available here.
To bring you up to date with the section devoted to the tributes to Dr Steven Olsburgh and the presentation of the Foundation, here are a few pictures and videos.
