Professor Ian Meyers

OAM, BDSc, FRACDS, FICD, FADI, FPFA

Professor Ian Meyers is a general dental practitioner in Brisbane, and an honorary professor at The University of Queensland School of Dentistry. He has over forty years of combined experience in dental research and education, and with clinical dentistry in private practice, university clinics and hospital based dental clinics. He is a past President of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons and the Queensland Branch of the Australian Dental Association. He is President-Elect of the Australasian section of the International College of Dentists, and a Fellow of the Academy of Dentistry International and Pierre Fauchard Academy. In 2017 he received the Order of Australia Medal for services to dentistry, professional associations, and tertiary education. Professor Meyers has extensive experience in comprehensive patient care, with special interests in diagnosis and management of the worn dentition, geriatric and aged care dentistry, adhesive restorative dental materials, fibre-reinforced composites, and the management of patients through minimum intervention dentistry.

Modern dental restorative materials, combined with enhanced clinical techniques, can provide highly aesthetic and high strength restorations for both anterior and posterior teeth. Short fibre reinforced composites (SFRC) provide an extremely high strength direct restorative material which can greatly enhance the options available for strengthening weakened and endodontically treated teeth. Coupled with the highly aesthetic and high strength injectable composites, they can be utilised in both direct and indirect restorations and enhance the outcomes from both functional and aesthetic aspects. This presentation will review a range of restorative materials and techniques and through a series of clinical cases demonstrate how these materials can be utilised successfully in daily clinical practice.

Topics to be discussed:

• Restorative materials selection and their use in complex restorative cases
• Options for restorative management of weakened and endodontically treated teeth
• Internal reinforcement and improving the core strength and structural integrity of teeth with Short Fibre Reinforced Composites
• Optimising adhesion and maximising restorative bonding
• Simplifying restorations to obtain predictable outcomes
• Clinical cases demonstrating both direct and indirect procedures