PROGRAMME

Subject to change. Updated: 26.7.2024

This year's programme is designed for both Orthodontists and Auxiliaries to participate in the full three-day meeting together.

Time	Topic
4.00pm	Registration open
4.30pm - 6.00pm	Welcome and opening of exhibition at Cordis Auckland

Time	Topic	Speaker
7.00am	Registration desk open
8.00am	Mihi whakatau
8.30am - 9.30am	The five W’s of root resorption	Prof Emeritus Anne Marie Kiujpers-Jagtman
9.30am - 10.30am	Orthodontic re-treatment	Prof Mithran Goonewardene
10.30am - 11.00am	Morning tea
11.00am - 12.00pm	Infection prevention and control in orthodontics: working safely	Prof Emeritus Laurie Walsh
12.00pm - 12.50pm	TADs: my journey from miniplates to miniscrews	Prof Marie Cornelis
12.50pm - 1.50pm	Lunch
1.50pm - 2.40pm	Skeletal anchorage for complex cases and orthodontic camouflage	Dr Giorgio Iodice
2.40pm - 3.40pm	Traditional vs skeletal anchorage: is the shift to TADs always justified?	Prof Mauro Farella
3.40pm - 4.00pm	Afternoon tea
4.00pm - 4.45pm	From peaks to valleys: controlling the curve of spee across vertical dimensions	Dr Adith Venugopal
4.45pm - 5.00pm	Wish For a Smile update	Azza Al-Ani
5.00pm	Close
6.30pm	Conference dinner pre dinner drinks
7.00pm - 11.00pm	Conference dinner at Cordis Auckland This year's dinner theme is BACK TO THE FUTURE, we encourage you to dress up, your own interpretation of that! Alternatively smart casual.

Time	Topic	Speaker
7.30am	Registration desk open
8.00am - 8.55am	TADs and biomechanics to overcome aligners’ limits	Dr Giorgio Iodice
8.55am - 09.45am	Asymmetry - contemporary diagnosis and management principles	Prof Mithran Goonewardene
9.45am - 10.35am	Why things can go wrong in orthodontics	Prof Emeritus Anne Marie Kuijpers-Jagtman
10.35am - 11.05am	Morning tea
11.05am - 11.55am	Technology in orthodontics	Prof Emeritus Laurie Walsh
11.55am - 12.45pm	Orthodontic tooth movement and related risks seen from a biomechanical perspective	Prof Paolo Cattaneo
12.45pm - 1.00pm	PECC update
1.00pm - 2.00pm	Lunch
2.00pm - 2.50pm	Growth, stability and dental implants – an orthodontist’s perspective on timing and placement	Prof Mauro Farella
2.50pm - 3.40pm	Essential dental work posture user guide	Dr Anikó Ball
3.40pm - 4.00pm	Afternoon tea
4.00pm - 5.00pm	Nutrition and well-being: the latest findings from nutrition research	Varsha Asrani
5.00pm	Close
5.00pm - 7.30pm	Auxiliary evening kindly sponsored by Ormco
5.15pm - 6.00pm	NZAO AGM
6.30pm - 9.30pm	Orthodontists' Dinner at The Maritime Room

Time	Topic	Speaker
7.30am	Registration desk open
8.00am - 8.45am	Back to the future - orthodontic education / training / assessment. Are we about to do a full circle?	Dr Peter Fowler
8.45am - 9.35am	How clinical practice guidelines can help you	Prof Emeritus Anne Marie Kuijpers-Jagtman
9.35am - 10.35am	Orthodontic retention: an update for the clinician Two decades of CBCT: technique, limitations and applications in orthodontics	Prof Marie Cornelis Prof Paolo Cattaneo
10.35am - 10.55am	Morning tea
10.55am - 11.55am	Maxillary expansion - a summary of clinically relevant research findings / 3D guided surgical orthodontics - accuracy of methods	Prof Mithran Goonewardene
11.55am	Postgraduate presentations
	Nano- and micro-scale evaluation of human enamel following different debonding methods	Woody Wu
	Bruxism: exploring daytime and sleep time patterns	Daniel Waller
	Effectiveness of treatment of Class II subdivision malocclusions with clear aligners: A retrospective study	Amir Hatami
	Public perceptions of orthodontic providers and orthodontic treatment in New Zealand	Amal Ajamain
1.00pm	Close

	POST-CONFERENCE
1.30pm - 5.30pm	Post conference workshop (pre-registration and payment essential) The dental work posture user guide workshop	Dr Anikó Ball
1.45pm - 5.15pm	NZAO mentoring meeting Buying and selling an orthodontic practice; the good, the bad and the misaligned	Matt Barker