In 2006, the ITI produced a book called the ITI Treatment Guide Volume 1, which was how to replace single upper anterior teeth with a dental implant and get excellent aesthetic results. They pioneered the procedure around the use of provisional crowns and showed a recipe for how to do this. Changed my career, changed my life, changed my trajectory.
I was already well into the ITI as a member for that time and I was speaking and lecturing for them, but I was able to take the learnings of treatment guide one and apply them to my own practice (even though I don't like restorative dentistry) and got some extraordinary results which allowed me to lecture on that basis and show people how to do that.
I was asked to go round to lots of different places to tell this story, and I did, I got paid, I got recognition, I got a reputation, and it catapulted me forward to a better place.
One of the first places I presented some of these pictures was at the Glasgow ITI Study Club for my friend Colin Burns. I can't remember when that was, but it was a long time ago when I used to give lectures on aesthetic implant dentistry for ITI study clubs in different places. I did it in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Liverpool, Sheffield, I can't remember, all over the place.
And so, I'm delighted to be back there on Monday night (even though it's a bank holiday in England) talking about something else.
Complications and treatment of elderly patients in implant dentistry, a topic that those guys had asked I would provide, and not one that I've provided for a while (the elderly one never really), but the essence of these things is amazing.
Glasgow has a lot of people who go to their ITI Study Club, and so it'd be brilliant just to turn up and chat and show cases and discuss and argue and confer and for me to learn from these guys and what they see and hopefully for them to learn a little bit from me.
I think I have spoken at the ITI Study Club in Glasgow 4 or 5 times in my career. It seems appropriate to me because it's where I'm from.
I hope I can give them something different, and it's not just the same old, but I'll try my best.
These are the huge privileges of what we do and what we're allowed to do, ways to spend our time with people that we like, sharing, paying back, paying forwards actually, because the people that helped me in the ITI 20 and 25 years ago allowed me to get to the place where I have the privilege and opportunity to try and help someone else.
See you in Glasgow on Monday night for the ITI Study Club if you're around.
Blog Post Number - 4264
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