Conference Title: Disruptive Paradigms in Prosthodontics
Conference Location: Sheraton Centre Hotel / Toronto, Canada
September 2-5, 2025
ICP 2025 – Toronto! promises an unforgettable experience with opportunities for fellowship, scholarship, and professional growth. Join us as we unite global experts, practitioners, and researchers to explore Disruptive Paradigms in Prosthodontics. This theme will spark discussions on innovations, challenges, and advancements in patient care while reflecting on both the past and future of the field. Scientific sessions will explore:
- Disruptors from the Past: A look back at key developments that have revolutionized prosthodontics.
- Disruptors into the Future: A forward-looking exploration of the technologies and ideas that will shape the next generation of care.
- Beyond Implant Fables: Debunking myths and examining the future potential of dental implants in prosthodontic care.
- Towards Centenarian Care: Addressing the unique challenges when caring for the aged and frail, as numbers of centenarians and supercentenarians climb.
- From Materials to Interfaces: Exploring cutting-edge materials and interfaces between manufacture, biology, practitioners, patients and clinical care outcomes.
- From Multidisciplinary to Interdisciplinary: Shifting the focus from multidisciplinary collaboration to true interdisciplinary practice in prosthodontics.
- Maxillofacial: Back to the Future: Revisiting the role of unique maxillofacial techniques from the past, and exploring new advances that are shaping the future.
- Digitally Disrupted Dentistry: Investigating the impact of digital technologies on the prosthodontic care – the potential future of computer centred care.
- Risking Failure: Examining the factors that contribute to prosthodontic treatment failure, and how to manage and mitigate risks in clinical practice.
- Prosthodontic Advocacy: Balancing advanced care with minimal intervention to seek the highest quality care for the broadest population.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2025
09:00 – 17:00 ICP Board Meeting
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2025
09:00 – 17:00 ICP Board Meeting
17:00 – 18:30 Welcome Reception
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2025
08:30 – 11:00 Keynote Presentations Focus Session: Disruptors From the Past
Dr. George Zarb, Canada
Branemark Presentation
Dr. Michael MacEntee, Canada
Centenarian Care
Dr. John Wolfaardt, Canada
Individualized Cancer Care
11:00 – 11:30 AM Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:30 Invited Speaker Focus Session: Disruptors Into the Future
Dr. Alon Prieskel, UK
Dentistry 3.0
Dr. Peter Fritz, Canada
Artificial Intelligence in Dentistry: Unintended Outcomes and Regulatory Ramifications
Dr. Tom Salinas, USA
Maxillofacial Reconstruction Including Facial Transplants
13:30 – 14:30 Conference Lunch
14:30 – 15:30 Concurrent Invited Speaker Focus Session: Beyond Implant Fables
Dr. Frank Tuminelli, USA
Zygoma Therapy
Dr. Lambis Petridis, UK
Disrupting Dogmas
14:30 – 15:30 Concurrent Invited Speaker Focus Session: Towards Centenarian Care
Dr. Frauke Muller, Switzerland
Title is Forthcoming
Dr. Sayaka Tada, Singapore
Title is Forthcoming
15:30 – 16:30 Open Oral Abstracts – Abstract portal will be open soon for submissions
16:30 – 18:00 Poster Session & Exhibit Reception
18:00 Session Adjourns
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2025
08:30 – 09:30 Concurrent Invited Speaker Focus Session: From Materials to Interfaces
Dr. Taiseer Sulaiman, USA
Title is Forthcoming
Dr. Arzu Tezvergil-Mutluay, Finland
Title is Forthcoming
08:30 – 09:30 Concurrent Invited Speaker Focus Session:
From Multidisciplinary to Interdisciplinary
Dr. Carlo Ercoli, USA
Immediate Implants: Esthetics, Emergence Profile and Peri-Implantitis Risk
Dr. Dave Felton, USA
The Relationship Between Tooth Loss and Systemic Health — The Prosthodontists Role in Interdisciplinary Healthcare
08:30 – 10:30 Resident and Registrar Oral Presentation Competition
09:30 – 10:30 Open Oral Abstracts – Abstract portal will be open soon for submissions
10:30 – 11:00 AM Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:00 Concurrent Invited Speaker Focus Session: Maxillofacial: Back to the Future
Dr. Dale Howes, Australia
Subperiostial Implants
Dr. Harry Reintsema, The Netherlands
Digital Planning, STL Radiation Fields
11:30 – 12:00 Concurrent Invited Speaker Focus Session: Digitally Disrupted Dentistry
Dr. Cristian Coronel, Equador
Title is Forthcoming
12:00 – 13:00 Open Oral Abstracts – Abstract portal will be open soon for submissions
13:00 – 14:00 Conference Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Concurrent Invited Speaker Focus Session: Prosthodontic Advocacy
Dr. Meriting Thokoane, South Africa
Prosthodontic Advocacy
14:00 – 15:00 Concurrent Invited Speaker Focus Session: Risking Failure
Dr. Mariam Margvelashvili Malament
A Story of a Tooth: From a Restoration to an Implant. Which one is Complication-Free?
Dr. Ramesh Chowdhary, India
Risk Assessment in the Success of Fixed Full Arch Implant Supported Prosthesis Design
15:00 – 16:00 Open Oral Abstracts – Abstract portal will be open soon for submissions
16:00 Session Adjourns
19:00-23:00 ICP Reception and Banquet
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2025
09:00 – 12:15 Focus Session- Keynote Presentations will be posted shortly
10:20 – 11:10 AM Coffee Break
12:15 – 12:30 Announcements
12:30 Meeting Adjourns
14:00 – 19:00 Group Social Outing @ the Toronto Aquarium & Dinner at the CN Tower 360 Restaurant
The 2025 program schedule is subject to change.
The conference program will take place over 3 days – Tuesday evening Welcome Reception through Friday. Daily sessions will include presentations by invited speakers and oral abstracts. The program will also include Poster Reviews and elective networking events.