PROGRAMMA

9:00-10:30  
State of the art of dentofacial orthopedics after more than hundred years of clinical trials: which growth modifications may be expected and how do they happen?

Coffee

11:00-12:30 
The use of skeletal anchorage to reduce dento-alveolar compensations in dentofacial orthopedics: does it really make a difference?

Lunch

14:00-15:30  
Introduction of a bone anchored Herbst appliance with a tooth borne upper frame, connected with 2 custom made Bollards in the mandible: clinical procedures and follow-up.

Coffee

16:00-17:30  
The outcome of a bone anchored Herbst appliance: what did we learn from a clinical investigation on 85 cases based on changes of occlusion, facial esthetics, and airway, supported by 3D imaging?

Hugo De Clerck

Hugo De Clerck is a graduate of the Ghent University orthodontic program, he received his PhD in
1986, and he maintains a private practice in Brussels. He has been Professor and Chairperson of the
Department of Orthodontics at the Université Catholique de Louvain from 1989 to 2006.

Currently he’s an Adjunct Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

• He received the Dewel Award in 2012 from the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dento-
  facial Orthopedics.
• In 2019 he received the Jacob A. Salzmann Award of the American Association of
  Orthodontists, and the John Valentine Mershon Memorial Award in 2022.
• He’s a former President of the Belgian Orthodontic Society and Fellow of the Royal College of
  Surgeons of England.

His main research interests are in skeletal anchorage, biomechanics and orthopedics.
He lectured extensively on these topics throughout the world.

Accreditatie goedgekeurd voor Nederlandse orthodontisten via NVvO, 6 punten.

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