
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
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DAY 1 (Nov. 5, 2026)
Session Chair
Marian V. Constantinescu
ROMANIA
09:30 CET – 10:00 CET
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Lakshman P. Samaranayake
Professor Emeritus
University of Honk Kong
HONG KONG
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Edoardo Cavallè
ERO-FDI President
ITALY
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Paula Perlea
ERO-FDI President-Elect
ROMANIA
10:00 CET – 10:30 CET
Session 1
Lakshman P. Samaranayake
HONG KONG
10:30 CET – 10:45 CET
Coffee Break
10:45 CET – 11:15 CET
Session 2 – Artificial Intelligence and Mixed Reality in Implant Dentistry
Francesco Guido Mangano
ITALY
11:15 CET – 11:45 CET
Session 3 – Targeting Brain Rhythms for Pain Relief: Strategies and Mechanisms
Weiwei Peng
CHINA
11:45 CET – 12:15 CET
Session 4 – Net Zero Dentistry: Can We Build Carbon-Smart Dental Practices?
Mahesh Verma
INDIA
12:15 CET – 12:45 CET
Session 5 – Why symptoms are not enough: toward a functional and predictive approach to occlusal diagnosis
Jean Claude Combadazou
FRANCE
12:45 CET – 14:15 CET
Virtual Presentation Session 1 & Lunch Break
Jury Chair – e-Poster Competition
Wei Wei Peng – CHINA
Asja Čelebić – CROATIA
Sorin Uram-Țuculescu – USA
14:15 CET – 14:45 CET
Session 6 – Digital Phenotyping of Orofacial Pain
Parisa Gazerani
NORWAY
14:45 CET – 15:15 CET
Session 7 – Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS): Evidence, Controversy, and Practice
Mark I. Johnson
UNITED KINGDOM
15:15 CET – 15:30 CET
Coffee Break
15:30 CET – 16:00 CET
Session 8 – The prognostic role of anaemia in maxillofacial space infections
Eshwar Thota
INDIA
16:00 CET – 16:30 CET
Session 9 – Joint Vibration Analysis complements TMJ imaging for determining patient TMJ status
John Radke
USA
16:30 CET – 17:00 CET
Session 10 – Immediate Effects of Dry Needling on Pain and Masticatory Muscle Activity in Patients with Myofascial Temporomandibular Disorders: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Serdar Gözler
TURKIYE
17:00 CET – 17:30 CET
Session 11
Ali Barikroo
USA
17:30 CET – 18:00 CET
Session 12
Riaz Yar
UNITED KINGDOM
18:00 CET – 18:30 CET
Session 13 – Applications of digital approaches to improve patient-centered implant treatment planning
Jon B. Suzuki
USA
18:30 CET – 18:45 CET
Conclusions
Sorin Uram-Țuculescu
USA
DAY 2 (Nov. 6, 2026)
Session Chair
Paula Perlea
ROMANIA
09:30 CET – 10:00 CET
Session 14 – The Era of Digital Neuromuscular Diagnosis: A Data Driven Approach to Functional Assessment and Rehabilitation
Carlos Capmourteres
ARGENTINA
10:00 CET – 10:30 CET
Session 15 – Sustainability and the Covenant of Trust in Patient Care: Redefining Orthodontics.
Anmol Kalha
INDIA
10:30 CET – 10:45 CET
Coffee Break
10:45 CET – 11:15 CET
Session 16 – Non-Invasive Digital Guided Procedures: The New Era in Prosthodontics
Camillo D’Arcangelo
ITALY
11:15 CET – 11:45 CET
Session 17
Florin E. Constantinescu
ROMANIA
11:45 CET – 12:15 CET
Session 18 – Management of Occlusal Splints in the Treatment of Temporomandibular Disorders
Simona Tecco
ITALY
12:15 CET – 12:45 CET
Session 19 – Neuromuscular Orthodontics: Advanced Clinical Strategies for Patients with Craniomandibular Dysfunction & TMJ Pathology
Myriam L. Carballo
ARGENTINA
12:45 CET – 14:15 CET
Virtual Presentation Session 2 & Lunch Break
Jury Chair – e-Poster Competition
Simona Tecco – ITALY
Rohit Kochhar – INDIA
Paula Perlea – ROMANIA
Session Chair
Florin E. Constantinescu
ROMANIA
14:15 CET – 14:45 CET
Session 20 – Integration of Artificial Intelligence in Teledentistry for Orally Frail Patients
Thanaphum (Noom) Osathanon
THAILAND
14:45 CET – 15:15 CET
Session 21 – Functional relationships between the stomatognathic and visual systems
Annalisa Monaco
ITALY
15:15 CET – 15:30 CET
Coffee Break
15:30 CET – 16:00 CET
Session 22 – Neuromuscular Orthodontics: Tongue thrust and Malocclusion
Fabio Savastano
ITALY
16:00 CET – 16:30 CET
Session 23
Alessandro Iorio Siciliano
ITALY
16:30 CET – 17:00 CET
Session 24 – The Architecture of Beauty in Modern Multidisciplinary Dentistry
Marco Tallarico
ITALY
17:00 CET – 17:30 CET
Session 25 – Sphenopalatine Ganglion (SPG) Block: Intranasal Neuromodulation for Trigeminal Pain Control
Jennifer Stafford
USA
17:30 CET – 18:00 CET
Session 26 – Green Intelligence: How Artificial Intelligence Can Drive Sustainable Dentistry
Minaal Verma
USA
18:00 CET – 18:30 CET
Session 27 – Current Concepts in the Treatment of Acute Periodontal Problems
Nurcan Buduneli
TURKIYE
18:30 CET – 18:45 CET
Conclusions
Florin E. Constantinescu
ROMANIA
DAY 3 (Nov. 7, 2026)
Session Chair
Eshwar Thota
INDIA
09:30 CET – 10:00 CET
Session 28
Irina Zetu
ROMANIA
10:00 CET – 10:30 CET
Session 29 – The invisible interface: adhesive cementation
Giacomo Derchi
ITALY
10:30 CET – 10:45 CET
Coffee Break
10:45 CET – 11:15 CET
Session 30
Liviu-Cristian Romanec
ROMANIA
11:15 CET – 11:45 CET
Session 31 – Importance of hyoid bone position for interdisciplinary treatment plan of orthodontic patients
Gabriela Kjurchieva Čuchkova
REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA
11:45 CET – 12:15 CET
Session 32 – Biomechanical Considerations for Long-Term Success of Implant Overdentures
Asja Čelebić, Nikola Petričević, Sanja Peršić-Kiršić
CROATIA
12:15 CET – 12:45 CET
Session 33
Antonio Corradini
ITALY
12:45 CET – 14:15 CET
Virtual Presentation Session 3 & Lunch Break
Jury Chair – e-Poster Competition
Irina Zetu – ROMANIA
Fabio Savastano – ITALY
Gabriela Kjurchieva Čuchkova – REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA
Session Chair
Simona Tecco
ITALY
14:15 CET – 14:45 CET
Session 34 – The Hidden Life of an Aligner
Francesco Cecere
ITALY
14:45 CET – 15:15 CET
Session 35 – Full Mouth Rehabilitation with the OMRT Technique
Nazzareno Bassetti
ITALY
15:15 CET – 15:30 CET
Coffee Break
15:30 CET – 16:00 CET
Session 36 – Management of Cleft Lip and Palate Patients
Mihai Ioan
ROMANIA
16:00 CET – 16:30 CET
Session 37 – The concept of function driven orthodontics: fixed orthodontic treatment for severe dento-skeletal malocclusions from a functional perspective
Ivan Lendaro
ITALY
16:30 CET – 17:00 CET
Session 38 – Intentional Reimplantation-The Road Less Taken
Rohit Kochhar
INDIA
17:00 CET – 17:30 CET
Session 39 – Sustainable AI Screening: The Panoramic Radiograph as a Window to Systemic Health
Alina Pūrienė, Pijus Vainius, Darius Padvelskis
LITHUANIA
17:30 CET – 18:00 CET
Session 40 – Principles of Occlusal Biomechanics
Stefan Schunke
GERMANY
18:00 CET – 18:30 CET
Session 41 – The Impact of Cone Beam CT (CBCT) on Therapeutic Decision-Making in Endodontics
Philipp-Edmund-Viktor Stremkowski
ROMANIA
18:30 CET – 18:45 CET
Conclusions
Simona Tecco
ITALY
