Let’s be honest, nobody wants to treat a Bruxist! Don’t you fear that every restorations delivered will fail and that the patient will impose his/her presence in our office for multiple and not lasting repairs?

Could we treat them, instead, without making our professional life miserable?

Yes we can and all starts from a correct DIAGNOSIS about the real cause of the dental overload in static (MIP) and/or in dynamic (chewing or parafunctional habits).

Following the NOBRUX classificatiton, you will discover that many times Bruxists are just patients who have been RECONSTRUCTED, but not REHABILITATED.

They are occlusally unstable, since their restorations are not in harmony with the patients’ function. In this lecture you will see how I adress this complex population with a completely different approach, the NOT INVASIVE ADDITIVE Prosthodontics.

If we better understand their function, we can propose very unusual therapies where Addive restorations are meant to fail in their mouth as the weak link during the overload. This programmed failure will be easily adressed without upsetting the routine of our private practice and most of all it will be even payed by the patients! Believe or not!

CV

Graduated in Medicine from the University of Bari, Italy, in 1996, Dr. Vailati left Europe to obtaine her second degree in Dentistry in 2000 the University of Pennsylvania (UPENN, USA), and in 2003 her specialty in Prosthetics at the University of Connecticut (UCONN, USA).

Returning to Europe in 2004, she joined the Prosthetics Department headed by Prof. Urs Belser at the University of Geneva in Switzerland.

In 2005, Dr. Vailati developed the 3STEP method.

Since 2007, Dr. Vailati has been practicing in Geneva, focusing mainly on complex rehabilitations with aesthetic and functional problems, following the completely non-invasive principles of ADDITIVE Prosthodontics.

Dr. Vailati's pioneering work in fusing classical Prosthodontics with adhesive techniques has culminated in her bestselling book, "3STEP, the Additive Prosthodontics," which was released in 2022 and has already been translated into multiple languages to meet the great demand internationally for teaching in the field of functional Additive Prosthodontics.

Finally, Dr. Vailati founded her Academy (3STEP Academy), and its E-learning platform, to continue training dentists worldwide in the 3STEP method, Additive Prosthetics and Gnathology, always in line with the non-invasive approach in treating patients.