Andre Chen

Basel is now behind me, but Lisbon welcomed me back with that almost cinematic May atmosphere: rain falling endlessly, traffic frozen on Avenida da República, dark skies, and the strange feeling that winter never really left. Somehow, that gloomy setting perfectly matched one of the most impressive clinical cases I have seen in recent years. About two months ago, Jenny, from Madeira, sent me a CBCT scan of a patient carrying six mandibular implants that had been placed more than twenty years...

Yesterday we had one of those cases that reminds us why implant dentistry continues to be such a challenging and fascinating field. A patient referred from England arrived at the clinic with a complete prosthetic collapse in the first quadrant. She had an upper bridge supported by a canine and a first molar, but both abutments eventually failed, the bridge fractured at the pontic, and suddenly she was left with virtually no support between the canine and the molar. The initial treatment plan...

Last night I came back from Switzerland. We had a Key Opinion Leader Summit and, honestly, it was one of those moments that reminds me why these trips still matter. Beyond the lectures and the technology, it was another opportunity to reconnect with people — including Portuguese colleagues who, despite being geographically close, sometimes only truly connect when we meet abroad. I took the opportunity once again to go for an early run along the Rhine River. There is something almost...