Organization/Department 
Kepler Universitätsklinikum Linz, Department of CMFS  

Biography 
Christoph Staudigl (MD, DMD) received his degrees in medicine (MD, 2010) and dentistry (DMD, 2019) at the Medical University of Vienna. He is a board-certified Dentist, board-certified CMFS and attending at the department of CMFS at the Kepler Universitätsklinikum with focus on dental surgery and implantology.  

He was resident at the department of Anatomy, Medical University of Vienna and the department of traumatology and orthopedic surgery, Universitätsklinikum St.Pölten and the department of CMFS, Kepler Universitätsklinikum. In addition, he was visitor at the department of maxillofacial and plastic surgery, Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital Cooperstown, New York, USA; as well as at the department of oral and maxillofacial surgery at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Since 2018, he is module director for the module “Anatomy of Head and Neck” in the dental curriculum of the Sigmund Freud University Vienna. Since 2014, he has staged multiple international and national implantological workshops in Austria and Switzerland with the ÖGI(Austrian society of dental implantology) and Straumann HQ. He is a member of the ÖGI (Austrian society of dental implantology), chair of the Next Generation program and a member of the Austrian Society of Oral-Maxillofacial Surgery.  

Title of Talk 
3D Printing Dental Implants – an Introduction of the Inkplant Project 

Abstract 
Conventional screw type dental implants currently dominate the market, but in some cases the lack of local bone requires extensive grafting procedures. Inkplant wants to resolve the issue through patient specific implants 3d printed from zirconia, thereby eliminating the need for bone grafting.