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SPEAKER PROFILE (DAY 1)

Prof. Manabu Kanazawa
D.D.S., Ph.D

Professor Manabu Kanazawa graduated from Faculty of Dentistry, Tokyo Medical and
Dental University (TMDU) in 2002. He then completed Doctor’s Course in Complete Denture
Prosthodontics and obtained PhD in 2006 from Tokyo Medical and Dental University
(TMDU).
He served as clinical staff at University Hospital of Dentistry, Tokyo Medical and Dental
University from 2006 until 2008. From 2008 until 2020, he was the Assistant Professor and
Junior Associate Professor in Gerodontology and Oral Rehabilitation Department in the
same university. Between 2013 and 2014, he served as Visiting Professor at Oral Health
and Society, Faculty of Dentistry, Mcgill University, Canada. Currently, Professor Manabu
Kanazawa serves as Professor and Chair at Digital Dentistry, Tokyo Medical and Dental
University and he is holding the position since 2021.

Lecture : Present and Future of Digital Complete Denture
CAD/CAM technologies were applied to the field of complete denture prosthodontics, and
digital complete denture technology was rapidly developed in recent years. This presentation
will introduce our procedure of the digital complete denture, which is scanning the maxillary
and mandibular edentulous jaws using an intraoral scanner, scanning the silicone jig with the
maxillary and mandibular jaws while keeping the jig between the jaws, and newly developed
milled denture systems using the custom disc, comparing to other digital systems.

Dr. Neoh Leong Seng
B.D.S.

Dr. Neoh Leong Seng graduated with a Bachelor of Dental Surgery from the University
of Malaya in 1992. He ventured into private practice and set up his own general dental
practice in 1994. He constantly pursues continuing dental education locally and abroad
with special interests in aesthetic dentistry, orthodontics, implant dentistry and recently
digital dentistry. He is the first DSD certified practitioner in Malaysia and the first few in
the region. For the past few years, he actively engages in giving lectures, organising and
coordinating continuing dental education activities.
Dr Neoh is currently a committee member of the Malaysian Dental Association (MDA)
Private Practitioners Section (PPS). He has been actively involved in dental associations
in Malaysia such as Malaysian Association of Aesthetic Dentistry and founded the MDA
Toastmasters Club.

Lecture : Multi-disciplinary Smile Makeover: How You Can Do It
Too
Quite often untreated malocclusion, the early loss of permanent dentition without
replacement or both will lead to unpleasant smile and despaired function. Rehabilitation
can be tricky if we were to achieve the patients’ desired outcomes with procedures that are
as minimally invasive as possible.

In his presentation, Dr. Neoh Leong Seng, will illustrate his attempts to bring back the smiles
in these patients in a general practice utilising multi-disciplinary approaches, for examples:
digital smile design, orthodontics, periodontics, prosthodontics, restorative and implant
dentistry etc.
Emphasis will be on treatment planning, anticipations of potential challenges and
overcoming the unexpected following a systematic protocol that general dentists can adopt
in their daily practices.

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