A Great Debate

With implant dentist, Stephen Jacobs keeping order throughout the day and managing questions from the floor, the first of the day’s debates, ‘Allograft vs. Xenograft: the natural choice, between Anthony Summerwill and Rob Oretti, dealt with how to choose between the two grafting materials. Dentists came away with valuable tips to help guide them towards the most appropriate material for a case while witnessing a very heated debate and Q&A session, expertly hosted by Stephen.

Next up, Adam Nulty and David Murnaghan debated ‘Digital vs Analogue: the future of implant dentistry’, looking at the current technological state of dentistry and questioning if there was indeed a digital replacement for the human touch. While David presented his cases, and his approach and techniques throughout, Adam advised whether he felt each case could have been ‘bettered’ with a more digital approach. The room agreed, with Stephen Jacob’s support, that the digital move was happening in dentistry whether we ‘liked it or not’, but that it was up to the individual how far that was extended in practice. This debate concluded that, while digital was proving a beneficial tool in practice, there was often no replacement for a clinician’s handy work.