Aesthetic Congress. Dental World 2025

The Ultimate Dental Experience
 

For more than two decades now, the leading players in dentistry have been meeting at Dental World in Budapest to gain knowledge, experience and expertise. Congress participants and international experts from 50+ countries from all over the world, with a special focus on the Central-Eastern European countries, will be able to attend 5 international congresses at Dental World. 

The presence of more than 300 dental manufacturers will guarantee first-hand experience of all the innovations that will be seen in dental practices in the years to come. In addition, live surgeries, demos, workshops and practical training sessions will provide visitors with knowledge that can be applied immediately, while the social event will help participants to get to know not only Budapest but also each other better.

Keystone Speakers for 2025 Aesthetic Congress are:

• Dr. Kia Karimi (US) - Biomimmetic Onlays: Rationalle, Armamentaria and Technique
• Dr. Jason Smithson (UK) - Emulating Natures Morphology: Approaching the Anterior Direct Resin Case
• Dr. Alejandro Pineda (UR) - Aesthetic Rehabilitation, Using Natural Anatomy: From Analog to Digital
• Dr. Alexander Budovsky (AE) - Understanding TMJ Disorders: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management.

Why attend Dental World 2025?
– 24 CME credits + official certificate
– Live surgeries, practical demos, hands-ons
– Huge dental exhibition
– Networking with professionals from 50+ countries
– Budapest – top destination
 

Good to know: Visiting the exhibition and attending live surgeries and demos is free of charge.

Find out the program of other Dental World 2025 congresses:

– Endodontic Congress

– Implantology Congress

– Orthodontic Congress

– Digital Dentistry Congress

– Dental Sleep Medicine Congress.

IMPORTANT: the “All Access” and “VIP” participation options are also available for purchase.

DETAILED PROGRAM

DAY 1

9.05-9.15
Dr. András Volom, Dr. Ádám Gombos

Aesthetic Congress – Opening

09.15-10.30

Dr. Kia Karimi
Biomimmetic Onlays: Rationalle, Armamentaria and Technique

Learning objectives:

– The concept of biomimetic restorative dentistry
– Selective caries removal and crack dissection
– Immediate dentin sealing and deep margin elevation
– Advantages of an onlay over a crown
– Choosing the right rubber dam
– Preparation guidelines
– Build-up and block out
– Surface treatment of the ceramic restoration prior to bonding
– Bonding steps using heated packable composite
– Finishing and polishing.

10.30-11.00
Coffee break

11.00-12.30

Dr. Malte Heinrich

Clinical Approaches to Creating Optimal Contact Areas and Utilizing the Wedgeless Strategy

In the lecture we will learn:

– Single isolation, matrix adaptation, and how to achieve optimal approximate anatomy in a simultaneous and stress-free reproducible manner
– Make it easier to achieve better results in cases that are usually considered more difficult.

12.30-14.00
Lunch Break

14.00-15.00

Dr. Maja Petrevska
Composites in Everyday Practice – Efficiency in Direct Restorations

Composite resins are essential in modern restorative dentistry, offering versatility, aesthetics, and improved clinical efficiency. This study examines the effectiveness of various composite systems — including bulk-fill composites, simplified 4-shade systems, and conventional composites — in achieving efficient and predictable outcomes in direct restorations. Bulk-fill composites streamline posterior restorations by enabling faster placement in thicker increments while ensuring optimal polymerization and reduced shrinkage. The 4-shade system simplifies shade selection, enhancing workflow without compromising aesthetics. For direct veneers, conventional composites provide superior sculpting and layering capabilities, ensuring detailed contouring and lifelike aesthetics. By integrating these composite solutions into daily practice, clinicians can improve efficiency, reduce chair time, and deliver high quality restorations tailored to individual patient needs.

15.00-16.00
Prof. Louis Hardan

Mobile Dental Photography (MDP): the New Era of Dental Documentation and Communication

Photography is powerful in dentistry, its numerous applications such as diagnosis, treatment planning, legal documentation, publishing and lecturing has made digital photography a standard of care in modern dental practices. Nowadays the DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) cameras are widely used in dentistry to take high definition macro images. Recently, smartphones have come a long way in digital photography due to recent technology development; with an appropriate management of light and specific accessories, intra-oral and extra-oral photography and videography became possible in an easy way. The purpose of this lecture is to demonstrate the capacity of these devices to take high quality dental pictures. Those pictures are useful in different types of documentation and communication, in a feasible teachable and repeatable way, by everyone and for everyday practice.

16.00-16.30
Coffee break

16.30-17.15

Dr. Mutlu Özcan
Secrets of Dental 3d Printing: Which Material, Which Technology and How?

With the advances in technological developments and introduction of subtractive and additive manufacturing methods, new materials are being introduced for tooth-, implant- and mucosa-borne reconstructions along with bone substitutes. While developments in the field of biomaterials influence almost all disciplines of dentistry, clinicians should be able to master the knowledge of the material types, their fundamental physical and chemical properties, as well as their biocompatibility. In this lecture, an overview will be given on the current clinical possibilities, limitations and future perspectives on new materials in dentistry with a focus on metals, polymers, hybrids and ceramics for subtractive and additive manufacturing.

DAY 2

9.05-9.15

Dr. András Volom, Dr. Ádám Gombos
Aesthetic Congress – Opening

9.15-10.45

Prof. Simone Grandini

Efficient workflow for aesthetic composite restorations
 

The purpose of the lecture is to make a critical appraisal of modern materials and procedures in adhesive restorations, including dentin bonding agents, resin composites, color and aesthetics principles, the step by step procedures for direct restorations. Adhesive technologies have contributed to change the way dentists conceive aesthetic restorations. The silent revolution of dentin bonding agents has allowed practitioners to minimize their preparations: it is now possible to obtain an “invisible” restoration in terms of color, shape and surface texture. Due to the improvements of materials and techniques, dentists can restore aesthetic appeal and function with a low biological and financial cost.

Patients are aware of the new technologies, and require treatments that are highly aesthetic, minimally invasive, repairable and not too expensive. Resin composite restorations can fulfill all these requirements. However, the correct protocols have to be implemented to achieve clinical success and to obtain invisible restorations.

Learning Objectives:

– Understanding color matching in direct restorations
– Preparing the margin according to the type of restorative technique
– Understanding the correct workflow for a class IV and a direct veneering
– Contouring, finishing and polishing an anterior restoration.

11.15-12.30

Dr. Aleksander Budovsky
Understanding TMJ Disorders: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management

The temporomandibular joint (TMJ) is central to functions such as chewing, speaking, and overall jaw movement. Disorders affecting this joint, collectively known as Temporomandibular Joint Disorders (TMDs), present a complex array of symptoms including chronic pain, clicking or popping sounds, restricted jaw movement, and even headaches or ear-related discomfort. The multifactorial nature of TMDs, involving structural, functional, and psychosocial elements, often complicates diagnosis and management. This evidence-based lecture explores the intricate nature of TMDs, providing clinicians with a comprehensive approach to diagnosis, treatment, and long-term management. From understanding the underlying causes of TMJ disorders to implementing minimally invasive and interdisciplinary strategies, this session equips dental professionals with practical tools to address one of the most challenging areas in dental practice.

What Participants Will Learn:

– Comprehensive Diagnosis: Learn step-by-step protocols for assessing TMJ function, identifying pathology, and differentiating TMDs from other oro-facial pain conditions
– Advanced Imaging: Understand when and how to utilize imaging modalities such as CBCT, MRI, and ultrasound for accurate diagnosis and treatment planning
– Non-Invasive Treatment Approaches: Practical guidance on occlusal splints, physical therapy, and pharmacological interventions to manage pain and improve function
– Injection Therapies: Explore the use of botulinum toxin, corticosteroids, and hyaluronic acid for targeted relief in cases of inflammation and dysfunction
– Behavioral and Psychosocial Management: Address bruxism, stress-related habits, and patient lifestyle factors that contribute to TMDs
– Surgical Interventions: Criteria for when surgery is indicated, with an overview of procedures such as arthrocentesis, arthroscopy, and open-joint surgery
– Long-Term Care: Develop personalized protocols for monitoring, maintenance, and prevention of symptom recurrence.

12.30-14.00
Lunch break

14.00-14.45

Dr. Jason Smithson
Adhesive Bridgework: the Details

In many cases, dental implants are now considered the Gold Standard for replacement of missing teeth. However, they require specialised skills for placement, extensive and expensive equipment, and multiple visits. What do you do when the patient has a missing tooth and cannot afford implants or has an adverse medical condition? Conventional bridgework offers a time-proven solution but requires preparation of teeth which in many cases is unnecessary destructive and may condemn the patient to future endodontic therapy and perhaps even future loss of the tooth. In many cases, the tooth can be replaced with adhesive bridgework in a predictable manner which is low cost in terms of finance and tooth structure. This fast-moving, evidence-based lecture shares 25-years of Jason’s experience with adhesive bridgework.

14.45-15.15

Dr. Jason Smithson
Management of Discoloured Teeth: an Ultra-conservative Approach

Teeth become discoloured for a variety of reasons: tetracycline staining, loss of vitality or after restoration with silver amalgam to name but a few. These teeth were classically treated with full coverage crowns: today this would be unnecessarily destructive. Sometimes these teeth are amenable to bleaching; however, what do we do when bleaching fails or is inappropriate.

Learning objectives:

– Diagnosis of tooth discoloration: not all are created equal
– The Modified Walking Bleach Protocol: a simple predicable approach for the home whitening of discoloured non-vital teeth
– Prevention of resorption and the coronal barrier seal
– Optimal resin selection for the discoloured tooth
– Flowable Opaque Resins, when and where
– Tooth preparation, layering and finishing to recreate natural tooth structure when masking a discoloured tooth with direct resin.

15.15-15.45
Coffee break

15.45-17.15

Dr. Jason Smithson
Emulating Natures Morphology: Approaching the Anterior Direct Resin Case

Direct resin can produce functional, highly aesthetic long-lasting restorations, which are conservative of tooth structure. However, with the rise of aesthetic dentistry in the media, the public as consumers are becoming increasingly discerning: they expect and demand the best. Learn key concepts such as shade selection and micro and macro-anatomy and pull them together into a simple step-by-step protocol which includes treatment planning, diagnostics, preparation, composite placement, and finishing, allowing you to achieve outstanding results on a consistent basis.

Learning objectives:

– Shade selection: demystify the science and use it as a practical everyday tool
– Translucency, opacity, and opalescence: why all composite resin is not created equal
– Two different concepts to make incisal edge shade and effects obvious and effortless
– How to quickly and inexpensively fabricate diagnostic mock-ups and palatal silicone indices to achieve precise incisal edge position and restore worn palatal surfaces
– Simple, intuitive finishing protocols, to produce highly, polished restorations, which mimic natural enamel
– How to layer resin to create lifelike incisal halos and effects such as crack lines and opacities.

DAY 3

9.05-9.15

Dr. András Volom, Dr. Ádám Gombos
Aesthetic Congress – Opening

09.15-10.30

Dr. Alejandro Pineda
Aesthetic Rehabilitation, Using Natural Anatomy | From Analog to Digital = 10 Years of Evolution

This lecture is about how my approach to aesthetic cases has changed over the last 10 years—from analog techniques to fully digital solutions. I’ll show how we can still rely on natural anatomy and classic principles, but now with the help of digital tools that make the process faster and more predictable. I’ll walk through real cases to show how we design and deliver beautiful, natural-looking smiles. It’s about combining the best of both worlds: the sensitivity of analog with the precision of digital.
 

10.30-11.00
Coffee break

11.00-12.30

Prof. Danijela Marovic
The Art and Science of Anterior Composites: Mastering Single-Shade and Layering Techniques

Achieving natural esthetics in anterior composite restorations requires a delicate balance between simplicity and complexity. This lecture presents two basic approaches to direct composite restorations: monochromatic and polychromatic techniques. The polychromatic technique is the standard for complex cases — such as extensive Class IV restorations or scenarios that require intricate replication of the optical properties of enamel and dentin.

Using multiple composite shades to mimic the natural interplay of translucency and opalescence allows clinicians to achieve superior esthetic results. Still, it requires greater technical expertise and longer clinical sessions. Monochromatic composites, characterized by their single-shade simplicity, offer a practical and efficient solution for many cases, delivering esthetic results with reduced technique sensitivity and chairside time.

These composites use advanced shade-matching technologies to blend seamlessly with surrounding tooth structures, making them ideal for uncomplicated restorations. This presentation will dissect the biomechanical and optical principles underlying both techniques, provide clinical decision making frameworks for case selection, and provide evidence-based guidance on material handling and layering protocols.

Attendees will gain practical knowledge to select the appropriate method depending on the complexity of the case to achieve optimal esthetic results while balancing efficiency and artistry in anterior composite restorations.

12.30-14.00
Lunch break

14.00-15.00

Dr. Serhat Köken
Anterior Direct Composites: Guidelines for Mimicking Nature

The rapid innovation in composite materials over the last decade and the availability of various types of composites have provided today’s clinicians with an extremely convenient and cost-effective tool. Direct composites enable clinicians to achieve excellent aesthetic results with minimal tooth destruction in a very efficient manner. This lecture will demonstrate how to reach high aesthetic standards in everyday dentistry using direct chairside composites. It will cover the clinical aspects of anterior composites, including shade selection, preparation tips, composite layering, and finishing and polishing techniques. Proper handling of composites can result in outstanding aesthetic outcomes, as shown through case examples in this lecture.

15.00-15.45

Dr. Payman Fatemi Langroudi
Guaranteed Whitening Results – The Next Chapter

Enlighten, is the first whitening system in the world to guarantee results with a 98% success rate to VITA shade B1 or whiter on over half a million treatments. Join the product developer Payman Langroudi for latest updates both clinical studies and experiences.

(The program will be gradually updated.)