Program Overview

Teresa Biggerstaff, DDS, MD is an oral and facial surgeon in private practice in Kernersville, North Carolina. She is fellowship trained in facial cosmetic surgery and she operates a busy, full-scope oral and facial surgery practice and medical spa. She serves in leadership positions in state and regional Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon societies. She also serves as a senior clinical mentor in the Osteo Science Foundation Clinical Observership Program.

The Objective of this conference is to show you some of the benefits of the use of palletizer concentrates and especially the new protocols with the use of Platelet Rich Fibrin and the growth factors derived from it, some of its applications in Oral Surgery and maxillofacial, especially in the area of implantology, reconstruction of atrophic ridges, such as grafts in the elevations of the mucosa of the floor of the maxillary sinus, etc.

Learning Objectives:

• Expose new advances and new techniques in the handling of platelet concentrates (PRF).

• PRF can be considered as an autologous healing biomaterial that incorporates a fibrin matrix with leukocytes, platelets and growth factors, centrifuged from a simple blood draw in our operating rooms.

Dr. Michael Markiewicz is Professor and Chair of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, at the University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. He also holds adjuncts appointments as Professor in the Departments of Neurosurgery and Surgery, at the Jacob’s School of Medicine and Biomedical Science, is an attending surgeon in the Department of Head and Neck/Reconstructive Surgery at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, and is Co-director of the Cleft and Craniofacial Team, at the Craniofacial Center of Western New York. Dr. Markiewicz earned his Dental Degree at the University at Buffalo, and Medical Degree at Oregon Health and Science University where he also completed his General Surgery and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery training. He obtained a Master’s of Public Health from Harvard University and completed a Fellowship in Clinical Investigation at The Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Massachusetts. Dr. Markiewicz completed fellowships in Pediatric Cleft and Craniomaxillofacial Surgery, at the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, in Orlando, Florida, and in Head and Neck Oncologic and Microvascular Reconstructive Surgery, in the Division of Head and Neck Surgery, at the University of Florida, College of Medicine, in Jacksonville Florida.