PROGRAMME
Draft programme, subject to change. Updated: 3/04/2024
This year's programme is designed for both Orthodontists and Auxiliaries to participate in the full three-day meeting together.
| Time | Topic | |
| 4.00pm | Registration open | |
| 4.30pm - 6.00pm | Welcome and opening of exhibition at Cordis Auckland |
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
| 8.00am | Mihi whakatau | |
| 8.30am - 9.30am | The five W’s of root resorption | Prof Emeritus Anne Marie Kiujpers-Jagtman |
| 9.30am - 10.30am | Orthodontic re-treatment | Prof Mithran Goonewardene |
| 10.30am - 11.00am | Morning tea | |
| 11.00am - 12.00pm | Infection prevention and control in orthodontics: working safely | Prof Emeritus Laurie Walsh |
| 12.00pm - 12.50pm | TADs: my journey from miniplates to miniscrews | Prof Marie Cornelis |
| 12.50pm - 1.50pm | Lunch | |
| 1.50pm - 2.40pm | Skeletal anchorage for complex cases and orthodontic camouflage | Dr Giorgio Iodice |
| 2.40pm - 3.40pm | Traditional vs skeletal anchorage: is the shift to TADs always justified? | Prof Mauro Farella |
| 3.40pm - 4.00pm | Afternoon tea | |
| 4.00pm - 4.45pm | From peaks to valleys: controlling the curve of spee across vertical dimensions | Dr Adith Venugopal |
| 4.45pm - 5.00pm | WFAST update | |
| 5.00pm | Close | |
| 6.30pm | Conference dinner pre dinner drinks | |
| 7.00pm - 11.00pm | Conference dinner at Cordis Auckland |
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
| 8.05am - 8.55am | TADs and biomechanics to overcome aligners’ limits | Dr Giorgio Iodice |
| 8.55am - 09.45am | Asymmetry - contemporary diagnosis and management principles | Prof Mithran Goonewardene |
| 9.45am - 10.35am | Why things can go wrong in orthodontics | Prof Emeritus Anne Marie Kuijpers-Jagtman |
| 10.35am - 11.05am | Morning tea | |
| 11.05am - 11.55am | Technology in orthodontics | Prof Emeritus Laurie Walsh |
| 11.55am - 12.45pm | Orthodontic tooth movement and related risks seen from a biomechanical perspective | Prof Paolo Cattaneo |
| 12.45pm - 1.00pm | PECC update | |
| 1.00pm - 2.00pm | Lunch | |
| 2.00pm - 2.50pm | Growth, stability and dental implants – an orthodontist’s perspective on timing and placement | Prof Mauro Farella |
| 2.50pm - 3.40pm | Essential dental work posture user guide | Dr Anikó Ball |
| 3.40pm - 4.00pm | Afternoon tea | |
| 4.00pm - 5.00pm | Nutrition and well-being: the latest findings from nutrition research | Prof Kathryn Beck |
| 5.00pm | Close | |
| 5.00pm - 7.30pm | Auxiliary evening kindly sponsored by Ormco | |
| 5.15pm - 6.00pm | NZAO AGM | |
| 7.00pm - 10.00pm | Orthodontists' Dinner at Maritime Room |
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
| 8.05am - 8.45am | Back to the future - orthodontic education / training / assessment. Are we about to do a full circle? | Dr Peter Fowler |
| 8.45am - 9.35am | How clinical practice guidelines can help you | Prof Emeritus Anne Marie Kuijpers-Jagtman |
| 9.35am - 10.35am | Orthodontic retention: an update for the clinician Two decades of CBCT: technique, limitations and applications in orthodontics | Prof Marie Cornelis Prof Paolo Cattaneo |
| 10.35am - 10.55am | Morning tea | |
| 10.55am - 11.55am | Maxillary expansion - a summary of clinically relevant research findings / 3D guided surgical orthodontics - accuracy of methods | Prof Mithran Goonewardene |
| 11.55am | Postgraduate presentations | |
| 1.00pm | Close | |
| 1.30pm - 5.30pm | Post conference workshop (pre-registration and payment essential) The dental work posture user guide workshop | Dr Anikó Ball |
| 1.45pm - 5.15pm | Mentoring meeting Buying and selling an orthodontic practice; the good, the bad and the misaligned |