Young Woo Song

Fully guided implant placement has earned its popularity since it has enabled the clinicians to conduct the surgery as close to the presurgical plan as possible in a shorter period of time, however, the surgical guide is not 100% reliable. Indeed, we sometimes face the situation in which the guided surgery produces undesirable outcome even though every step of the preparation for the surgery has been carried out without any mistakes. A recently published clinical study (Park, Song et al., 2019) have reported that there is a significantly more chance to experience the fixture dislocation during the installation (i) when the surgical stent is a mucosa-supported type, (ii) when the site which needs implantation is far from the adjacent natural tooth, or (iii) when the bone shows uneven density. Among these three situations, clinicians may face uneven bone density when they try to place the implant immediately after the extraction, and regarding that the fixture needs to get installed through the cortical bone-lining socket wall, it could be assumed that the fixture thread design may influence the installation accuracy of the fully guided immediate implant surgery, and this presentation discusses this issue based on a recently published cadaver model experiment (Song et al., 2019) and clinical case.

Dr. Young Woo Song is a member of ITI and currently working as a clinical assistant professor in Department of Periodontology, Yonsei University College of Dentistry, Seoul, South Korea. He received his dental degree from Kyungpook National University School of Dentistry in South Korea in 2012, and completed the general dentistry internship at the same school in 2013. After the three-year military duty as a dental officer, he finished his periodontology residency and PhD courses from Yonsei University College of Dentistry in South Korea in 2019, and since then he is working as a full-time faculty in Yonsei University. He was a representative presenter of South Korea in the Unilever-Hatton Competition of IADR in 2019 and a past co-awardee of the 2020 ITI André Schroeder Research Prize in clinical research (Cha JK, Song YW, Park SH, Jung RE, Jung UW, Thoma DS. Alveolar ridge preservation in the posterior maxilla reduces vertical dimensional change: A randomized controlled clinical trial. Clin Oral Implants Res. 2019 Jun;30(6):515-523. doi: 10.1111/clr.13436.). He was also a past winner of Osteology Scholarship in 2020, which allowed him working as a research scholar in Harvard School of Dental Medicine for a year in 2021. His teaching focuses on periodontics and implantology, and as a clinician, he focuses on periodontal and implant treatments. As a researcher, he is an author of several SCI articles, and his main research topics are oral tissue regeneration and digital implant dentistry.