CONFERENCE PROGRAM

*The conference program may suffer changes.

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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