Your dentist in Bern

Meine Expertise

DENTAL EDUCATION

• Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf/Germany
  

1980 – 1985

Studies in Dental Medicine, Final degree: State exam, Approbation as Dentist

• Donau-Universität Krems/Austria

2008 – 2010

Postgraduate Master Studies in Oral Surgery/Oral Implantology, final degree Master of Science Oral Surgery/Oral Implantology with “summa

cum laude”

DENTAL WORK EXPERIENCE

• Zahnarztpraxis Dr. Steiner, Düsseldorf/Germany: Assistant Doctor
  

01.1986 – 12.1987

Learning the basics of dental treatments after the University

• Zahnarztpraxis Dr. Weber, Düsseldorf/Germany: Owner, Leading dentist
  

01.1988 – 12.1998

Founding of first own dental practice in Düsseldor/Germany, growing the office from 2 to 6 treatment rooms and from 2 to 20 employees,

offering all kinds of dental treatments

• Zahnarztpraxis Dr. Prünte &Partner, Unna/Germany: Associate
  

1999 – 2001

Associate dentist responsable for general dentistry, pediatric dentristy, oral surgery, implantology and treatments in general anaesthesia

• Zahnarztpraxis Dr. Weber, Düsseldorf/Germany: Leading dentist
  

2001 – 07.2003

Temporary job to help out a colleague, offering all kinds of dental treatments

• Implantatzentrum Bern, Bern/Switzerland: Owner, leading dentist

08.2003 – today

As successor of Dr Philippe D Ledermann learning from a pioneer in implantology, then overtaking his patients and continuing teaching

patients and young colleagues, offering restaurative and surgical dentistry

TITLES / SPECIAL FIELDS CERTIFICATIONS

• Dr. med. dent.

1987

Promotion to Doctor medicinae dentis at the Heinrich-Heine-University,

Düsselorf/Germany with the title: “Radiation exposure in the uterus during dental x-rays”, published in DZZ Deutsche Zahnärztliche Zeitschrift 1988

• Certification Special Field Implantology

1999

Certification of the Special Field Implantology by the BdiZ/EdI, Bundesverband der implantologisch tätigen Zahnärzte

• Re-certification every 5 years
• Master of Science MSc Oral Surgery/Oral Implantology

2010

Masterthesis: “Immediate loading of dental implants in the edentulous lower jaw"

A retrospective study in our office of so-called “Ledermann bar restorations” from the years 1999 to 2009

Rated: summa cum laude

• Master of the ICOI, MICOI, International Congress of Oral Implantologists

2020

Promotion to Fellow and Master of the ICOI, FICOI, MICOI by the International Congress of Oral Implantologists

Case studies and examination in 2020, Winter Congress of the ICOI, Houston/TX

EXAMPLES OF OFFERED TREATMENTS

Patient Education

Planning of complex treatments

CBCT (native or AI assisted), Planning Software f. Surgical Guides

Implantology (simple to complex), freehand or guided

All-on-4®, all-on-x

Oral Surgery (simple to complex)

Augmentations (Sinuslifts, bone blocks,…)

Treatment under General Anaesthesia

Fixed and removable Prosthetics

CEREC incl. Lab part of Single Crowns

Composite, Ceramic, Gold restorations

Endodontics

Aligner Therapy

Marketing

Management of complaints,…and many more

LICENSE

• German Approbation

1985

• Berufsausübungsbewilligung des Kantons Bern/Switzerland
  

2003

AWARDS

First Price Award at the Tabletop clinics and Poster presentation

2020

First Price Award at the Tabletop clinics and Poster presentation at the Winter Congress of the ICOI, Houston/TX

PRESENTATIONS

• Tabletop Clinics and Poster presentation

2020

ICOI Winter Congress, Houston/TX

• Tabletop Clinics and Poster presentation

2022

ICOI Winter Congress, Las Vegas/NV

LECTURES

• IGEL Leistungen mit Cerasorb®

1996 – 1997

Lectures in various cities in Germany (Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg,…)

• Individualprophylaxe für die zahnärztliche Praxis mit PIKS®
  

1996 – 1998

Lectures in various cities in Germany (Frankfurt, Magdeburg, Kassel,…)

• In-house Courses and Live-Surgeries for Astratech Switzerland

2007 – 2011, Implantatzentrum Bern, Bern/Switzerland

Lectures and workshops in General Implantology with special consideration of the Astratech® Implant System

• Master`s Program Oral Surgery/Oral Implantology

2011 – 2016, Danube Private University, Krems/Austria

Lectures in Implantology with special consideration of the immediate loading protocol of the so-called Ledermann-bar-treatment

• 4th Annual World Congress of OralDental medicine

2017, Singapore

“40 years of Experience with Immediate Loading of a Bar-Supported Overdenture in the Edentulous Mandible”

• Hospitations for colleagues

2011 - today, own practise

Offering opportunities for colleagues especially to assist their own referred patients or to learn about complex cases, all-on-x…

ARTICLES IN MEDICAL JOURNALS

• «Strahlenbelastung im Uterus bei zahnärztlichen röntgendiagnostischen Untersuchungen»

1988

DZZ Deutsche Zahnärztliche Zeitschrift

• «Rückblick und Ausblick nach über 30-jähriger Erfahrung mit der Sofortbelastung enossaler Implantate in der regio interforaminalis»

2005

DI Dentale Implantologie, Co-Author with Philippe D. Ledermann

• “Langzeiterfolg bei der Sofortbelastung im zahnlosen Unterkiefer»

2010

Implantologie Journal

• Articles about various themes in DentalWorld as editor/special journalist

2004 -2007

DentalWorld

ARTICLES IN PUBLIC JOURNALS

Numerous articles in public journals as editor/special journalist in various journals

Since 2004

vista, Drehscheibe Bern, Swissdent, Body&Mind,…

PATENTS

PIKS® – Persönliches Infektionsschutz- und Kontrollkonzept

1992

Bundespatentamt, München/Germany