Lecture up to 0.75 hour

Oral Medicine, Oral Diagnosis, Oral Pathology, AGD Subject Code 730

The use of platelet concentrates has had a long-history of use in various fields of medicine as an autologous source of growth factors fabricated utilizing centrifugation of blood under various conditions. Over the past 10 years, platelet rich fibrin (PRF) has seen a steady increase in utilization for a variety of medical and dental procedures due to its lack of anti-coagulation factors favoring fibrin clot formation and faster wound healing. 

This lecture aims to highlight the recent advancements made with respect to the newest formulations of platelet concentrates including recent developments in horizontal centrifugation. Thereafter, the Bio-Heat technology will be presented as a way to completely replace collagen membranes in dentistry owing to the ability to extend the working properties of PRF from 2-3 weeks to 4-6 months. Lastly, new clinical applications and uses of PRF will be presented in implant dentistry and in facial esthetics (Bio-Fillers using PRF).

Upon completion of this session, the attendees should be able to:

• Utilize protocols for any centrifugation device.

• Understand Bio-Heat technology and the ability to extend the working properties of PRF.

• Implement the Bio-Cool technology in their practices.

• Identify new uses of PRF in implant dentistry and facial esthetics.

Dr Miron has received product and/or financial support from StellaLife.

Dr Richard Miron is currently lead educator and researcher at Advanced PRF Education and an Adjunct Visiting Faculty in the department of Periodontology in Bern, Switzerland where he completed his PhD studies since 2009. He has currently published over 350 peer-reviewed articles and lectures internationally on many topics relating to growth factors, bone biomaterials and guided bone regeneration. For the past 8 years, Dr Miron has been recognized by Dentistry Today as being one of the top 100 CE providers in the country and the youngest to ever make the list. 

He is also the top ranked researcher on Platelet-Rich Fibrin therapy as per Expertscape independent review. He has recently been awarded many recent international prizes in dentistry and is widely considered as one of the top contributors to implant dentistry having won the ITI Andre Schroeder Prize, the IADR Young Investigator of the Year in the field of Implant Dentistry as well as the IADR Socransky Research award in the field of Periodontology (2020). He has written 8 textbooks widely distributed in regenerative dentistry including his best-seller in 2019 titled: “Next Generation Biomaterials for Bone and Periodontal Regeneration”, in 2021 titled: “Understanding Platelet Rich Fibrin” and in 2023 titled: “Modern Implant Dentistry”.