Cape Cod District Dental Society presents
The Link Between Aging, Oral and Neurodegenerative Diseases
Speaker: Alpdoğan Kantarci, DDS, PhD
Date: Thursday, May 2, 2024
Time: 5:30 pm Registration
6:00 p.m Passed Appetizers, Dinner to be served during presentation
6:30 p.m-8:30 p.m Lecture/Presentation
Dinner Options: Baked Stuffed Scrod, Pork Osso Bucco, Chicken & Eggplant Sorrentino
Event Overview: Aging increases the risk and severity of various dental pathologies resulting in challenges to dental care. In addition to specific needs that require customized treatment strategies, aging also increases the comorbidities of systemic diseases, which further leads to a need for collaborations with other fields of medical specialties. This lecture will focus on the unique features the aging population presents to dental practitioners.
Learning Objectives:
- To understand the aging-associated challenges in dental practice
- To understand the clinical implications of systemic diseases in dentistry
- To understand the potential mechanism underlying comorbidities and how to assess risk in gerodontology
Speaker Bio: Dr. Alpdoğan Kantarci holds a D.D.S. and a Ph.D. degree. He is a Board certified specialist of Periodontology (C.A.G.S.) and a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology. He is a Professor (Senior Member of the Staff) at the Forsyth Institute in Cambridge, MA, USA. Dr. Kantarci serves as an Associate Professor at Boston University’s Henry Goldman School of Dental Medicine and an Associate Professor at Harvard University School of Dental Medicine. After graduating from Istanbul University in 1991, he completed his doctorate studies at Istanbul University's Department of Periodontology, joining the faculty. He moved to the USA in 1999 as a postdoctoral fellow at Boston University. Upon completing his postdoctoral studies in 2002, he completed his clinical periodontology specialization training at Boston University. He serves as the clinical director at the Forsyth Institute as an active periodontist and implantologist. Dr. Kantarci has mentored more than 60 theses and directed and taught in several graduate and postgraduate clinical and didactic dentistry courses. He serves on the editorial board of more than 20 dental and medical scientific journals. His research interests include Molecular Mechanisms and Resolution Pathways of Oral Inflammation in Periodontitis and the Link to Systemic Diseases, Experimental Models, Clinical Applications of High-Throughput Analysis in Dental Research (e.g. xMAP Multiplexing), and Biology of Surgery-Assisted Tooth Movement. He holds several patents. He has published more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, written book chapters, and presented more than 500 oral talks.
