THE ALL-DAY DVAO EVENT
The All Day Meeting...
October 24, 2025
Title: Prevention and Management of Peri-Implant Diseases
Speaker: Mehrdad Favagehi, DDS, MS, FAO
Diplomate- American Board of Periodontology
Fellow- Academy of Osseointegration
Course objectives:
- Provide a comprehensive update about the latest in prevention, diagnosis and management of peri-implant diseases.
- Use case examples to demonstrate long-term outcomes of various non-surgical, surgical and laser assisted treatment approaches for management of peri-implantitis cases.
- Review the role of various implant surface treatments, lasers, biologics and grafting materials in peri-implant tissue regeneration.
Course description:
Peri-implant diseases represent one of the most common dental implant complications. The goal of this course is to review the latest regarding the prevention, diagnosis and management of peri-implant diseases. Various philosophies, theories and treatment approaches involving osseointegration and peri-implantitis treatment will be discussed. A systemic review of the contributory factors involved in peri-implant disease pathogenesis including systemic, surgical and restorative factors will be featured using clinical examples. Non-surgical, surgical and restorative strategies for long-term management of peri-implantits will be discussed showing clinical examples of complications. The role of various laser types and biologic growth factors and bone grafting in management of peri-implantits around implants will be shown with clinical case examples with long-term outcomes.
About the speaker:
Dr. Mehrdad Favagehi is a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology and Fellow of the Academy of Osseointegration (AO). He and his wife, Dr. Lourdes Ann Christopher, have been voted as Top Periodontists by multiple surveys of Washington DC and Northern Virgina dentists conducted by the Washingtonian, Northern Virginia Magazine and Virginia Living magazines for their periodontal and implant practice in Falls Church, Virginia, a suburb of Washington DC since 1997. Dr. Favagehi received his DDS from the Medical College of Virginia of the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in 1994. He received his periodontics specialty certificate and also an MS Degree in Oral Biology from the Ohio State University in 1997.
Dr. Favagehi has served as a clinical instructor at VCU Department of Periodontics since 1998. In 2011, he received a Teaching & Mentorship award from the American Academy of Periodontology (AAP). Dr. Favagehi is a former chair of the Research Submissions Committee of the Academy of Osseointegration (AO) and a co-founder of the AO E-poster committee. In 2022, Dr. Favagehi served as the Co-Chair of an AO Best Evidence Summit regarding guided and navigation-based implant surgery and participated as an observer in the 2024 AAP-AO Best Evidence Summit about peri-implant diseases. He has authored a textbook chapter about minimally invasive laser-based surgical techniques (Laser Dentistry 3rd edition, 2023 by Elsevier). He currently serves as the 2025-2026 President of the Osseointegration Foundation and has been the Editor-in chief of the Academy of Osseointegration newsletter since 2020.
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Attention!!!
This meeting will take place at Springfield Country Club
400 W Sproul Rd, Springfield, PA 19064
7:30AM to 8:15AM Breakfast
8:15AM Program Begins
Program will conclude by 4:00PM
(Continental breakfast in addition to lunch provided)
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NO WALK-INS will be permitted:
Payment of the 2025-2026 Membership Dues AND payment for this All-day meeting are now due!!!!