DENTAL IMPLANT WORKSHOP - Key Persons


Akeela Dental Care

Job Titles:
  • Director
Dr. Faizur Rahman is a Professor of Prosthodontics, and Consultant Implantologist He graduated from Annamalai University, Tamilnadu. And did his Post graduation in Prosthetic Dentistry from Govt.Dental College ,Chennai, Tamilnadu. He has oVer 20 years experience in Conventional Implantology with specialised training in Implant Prosthetics. He is a mentor and Certified Teacher for International Implant Foundation, Munich, Germany.

Dr. Antonina Ihde

Dr. Antonina Ihde is a young & Dynamic Implantologist. She studied dentistry at Belarussian State Medical University (Minsk, Belarus) from 2003 to 2008. In 2010 she completed her post-graduate research education at the Researchers Training Institute of National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Since 2010. Dr Antonina has been supporting research and publications of the International Implant Foundation and serves as an international lecturer and teacher. Since the beginning of 2019, she serves the International Implant Foundation as The Head of the Dental Implant Faculty.

Dr. Bobby Antony

Job Titles:
  • Dentist & Implantologist
Dr. Bobby Antony completed his B.D.S. from JKK Nataraja Dental College, Tamil Nadu. He completed his Advanced Curriculum Certificate in Immediate Functional Loading from Implant Foundation (Munich) in 2014.He went on to completed his Clinical Masters and made an IF teacher in 2019. He co-authored a Scientific Paper on Use of Bicortical Screws to treat atrophied maxilla which was published in the November 2016 Kerala Dental Journal and was adjudged the Best Scientific paper of 2016. He is a consultant implantologist to several clinics in Kerala and abroad he also regularly trains dentists in the exciting field of Strategic Implantology.

Dr. Faizur Rahman

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Prosthodontics

Dr. Vivek Gaur

Dr. Vivek Gaur is a graduate from Manipal University. After finishing his PG. Cert. in Advanced Implants, Manipal, India in 2003, he finishes his Diploma in Advanced Implants from Zest, Holland in 2004. He has been professionally trained in Advanced Grafting from Valladolid, Spain followed by Immediate Functional Loading from Milan, Italy and Basal Implantology from India, Hungary, Bulgaria, Serbia and Switzerland. He has been a keynote speaker in several Cortical Osseointegration Implant Symposiums. Dr. Gaur has also did his Master Clinical Programme from UCLA, Los Angeles, USA. He is an international teacher of Basal Implantology at Munich, Germany and Managing Editor of ‘Implant Direction'. He has been extensively trained in Cortical Implants by Dr. (Prof.) Stefen Ihde at various places, viz. Hungary, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Turkey, Russia and Egypt. He has 15 years of experience as an Implantologist and have plaved more than 15,000 Basal Implants successfully in patients from all over the world.

Michael Zach

Job Titles:
  • Board of Governors, IF Germany
Michael Zach was born in Essen in 1965. After studying law at Cologne University and the second state exam in law at the regional appeal court in Düsseldorf, he was employed in the legal department of Düsseldorf city. In 1996, he established chambers as a lawyer, in 2005 he was accredited as a specialised lawyer for medical law by the bar association of Düsseldorf. The focus of his practice is dentist law, medical device law and health insurance law.

Prof. Dr. Stefan Ihde

Prof. Dr. Stefan Ihde is a famed Periodontoligist & Implantologist from Switzerland who is also the promoter of the Dr.IhdeDental Group of Companies. He has introduced the highly advanced and innovative implant designs which are single piece and immediate loading called the KOS, BCS and the BOI series of implants. He manages the Dr. Ihde Dental group of companies, operates his patients, promotes the BOI® implant system and is committed to immediate loading and to avoiding bone augmentation procedures (for more information please refer to www.boi.ch). Over the years, he has published a sizable number of scientific publications and lectured extensively in various parts of the globe. He is the author of the textbook "Principles of BOI", the standard scientific text that defines and describes the treatment with basal implants (published by Springer Verlag in 2005).