The current view of autotransplantation; what are the right indications?

Ivo Marek,

Keynote lecture - Friday, May 20, 2022

About author:

Dr. Ivo Marek, PhD, graduated with a degree in Dentistry from the Faculty of Medicine at Palacky University in Olomouc in 1990. He completed a three-year training program in Orthodontics in 1999 and finished his postgraduate study in Orthodontics at the Orthodontic Department of Dental School at Palacky University in Olomouc in 2007, where he earned his PhD. Dr. Marek runs his Private Dental Clinic in Breclav, where he focuses on interdisciplinary dental care. Above all, he focuses on the collaboration of orthodontists with periodontists and implantologists. Moreover, the Dental Clinic has gained credibility for several important clinical successes. For example, Marek's clinic has the privilege of being the first clinic in the Czech Republic which has performed autotransplantation.
Dr. Marek works as an Assistant Professor at the Orthodontic Department of Dental School, Palacky University, in Olomouc, in both graduate and postgraduate study programs. In addition, he is a part-time teacher at the Orthodontic Department of the Faculty of Medicine in Brno and at Charles University's Faculty of Medicine, in Prague.
  He has published more than 50 articles and has given over 220 lectures in the Czech Republic and abroad (Poland, U.S.A, Taiwan, Singapure, Holland, England, Slovakia, Italia, Bulgaria, Poland, Estonia, Australia, etc...). 
Dr. Marek is a Vice President of the Czech Orthodontic Society, and not only a member of the European Orthodontic Society, but also the American Orthodontic Society and the World Orthodontic Society, European Aligner Society. In 2007, he was appointed Honorary Member of the Implantology Club of Czech Republic for the partnership between the fields of orthodontics and implantology. Furthermore, he is a member of the editorial board of the journal “Ortodoncie” (Orthodontics) and reviewer of the journal “Ortodoncie”, Angle Orthodontist, European Journal of Orthodontics and Journal of Aligner Orthodontics. He is member of the accreditation committee of the Ministry of Healthcare and a representative of the Czech Orthodontic Society in EFOSA, as well as an AAO Ambassador and member of Council of European Orthodontic Society.


Abstract of the lecture:

In recent years, teeth autotransplantation has developed very rapidly, in a way that is not typical for other surgical procedures in dental surgery. This is largely thanks to the shift in indications: autotransplantation has been extended from the immature teeth as the erstwhile sole indication to mature teeth as well. This has massively broadened the indications, because any tooth that is planned to be extracted in an adult patient for orthodontic reasons can be autotransplanted in the same individual to a site where a tooth is missing – a situation that would otherwise be resolved using an implant. This way of thinking is entirely revolutionary and we might well ask whether the procedure should be accepted as a legitimate medical method or not. In order for it to qualify as such, we need to have evidence-based medical data: are the autotransplantations of teeth whose development is complete as successful as those of teeth whose development is incomplete? Those data are already available. But should the frequent ankylosis of mature teeth be considered as a failure and a complication, or not? In some cases, external replacement resorption leads to complete root resorption, subsequent loss of the tooth and hence to the failure of the autotransplantation. Fortunately, in the majority of cases this clinical situation does not occur and the autotransplanted teeth have a favourable long-term prognosis. How can we prevent the ankylosis, and how serious clinical finding is it?


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