Dental Digital Seminars (DDS) is a scientific organization whose primary goal is the transmission of scientific knowledge as well as the promotion of clinical experience and practice in all areas of the broad dental field.

The DDS consists of experienced clinicians and academics whose primary purpose is to convey the knowledge they have in their areas of authority but also to participate in discussions and processes of confronting opinions and ideas with the aim of promoting knowledge and the quality of the dental practice provided by all participants.

DDS is an open space that invites and welcomes any colleague who supports the DDS goal of imparting scientific knowledge and clinical experience and wishes to participate in this process.

DDS, in addition to the digital web site where interesting topics will be presented regularly, organizes theoretical seminars and clinical masterclasses/workshops on many areas of the dental field with special emphasis on areas such as occlusion and the physiology and pathology of the function of the oral and maxillofacial system, the analog and digital rehabilitation workflow of patients with prosthetic work on teeth and implants, modern digital rehabilitation techniques with the creation of the digital patient, etc.

The DDS, in order to be able to cover topics in great depth at both a theoretical and a clinical level, has established a form of continuing education in each field with theoretical and practical modules that participants can attend in a series of seminars with special discounts for those attending the full cycle of seminars deepening and specializing their knowledge and experience in the various fields covered by the modules.

FOUNDERS

The initiators and founders of the scientific organization Dental Digital Seminars (DDS) are 4 experienced scientists in the dental field who envisioned the creation of this space for the transmission and critical evaluation of knowledge and clinical experience in the field of dentistry especially in areas that are favorite fields of scientific and clinical inquiry for them to convey their own knowledge, concerns, questions and inquiries to those colleagues who share the desire for the pursuit of knowledge and the proposition of dental clinical work.

Short Bios

Dr. Dimitrios Stavropoulos graduated from the Dental School of the University of Athens in 1991. He was then accepted at Columbia University to pursue further studies on the field of Prosthodontics. He completed his certificate in Prosthodontics at the School of Dental Medicine of Columbia University and a separate Masters Degree at the Graduate School of Columbia University on Biomechanics and Force distribution on Implant Prostheses. He continued his studies in Pittsburgh where he received his Certificate in Maxillofacial Prosthodontics at the School of Dental Medicine of Pittsburgh University. He has published parts of his research at Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry (JPD) and International Journal of Maxillofacial Implants (IJOMI).

Dr. Stavropoulos has dedicated many years in teaching at the Department of Prosthodontics of Columbia University (1996-1997) and the Department of Prosthodontics of University of Athens (2002-2022). He has presented lectures in numerous Greek and International conferences and has been organising and/or participating in various seminars and courses. He is also an active member of the most prestigious dental society in Greece (Odontostomatologic Research Society) and is the coordinator of the seminars of the society on occlusion and of the prosthodontic part of the continuing education on implants.

Since 1998 Dr. Stavropoulos has established his private practice (“Dental Emphasis”) in Athens where he practices Prosthodontics with emphasis on full mouth reconstructions, complex occlusal cases and implant reconstructions.

Dr. Dimitris Tasakos attended the Dental School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where he received his degree in Dentistry in 1997.

• In 2016, he joined the Digital Smile Design community as a DSD member and started implementing digital protocols in his clinic. Since January 2020, he has been recognized by the DSD organization as one of the DSD Masters.
• In March 2020, he participated in the DSD Masters Meeting II in Madrid, when he received the award for the Best DSD Mastership Presentation of the Year.
• ICOI Fellow (International Congress of Oral Implantologists).
• As a speaker or instructor, he actively participated in lectures and practical seminars about Digital Dentistry, mainly about Patient Digitization, Facially Driven Dentistry & Smile Design, Digital impressions, Digital Implantology, and prosthetic implant rehabilitation especially in immediate loading protocols.

Dr Tasakos is co-owner of the DVdental clinic in Athens – Greece, with a particular interest in facially driven Aesthetic Dentistry and Immediate Prosthetic implantology.

DVdental is part of the global network of Digital Smile Design clinics, known for their quality dental service using the latest digital technology in dentistry. It is the first, and only at the moment,  DSD-certified clinic in Greece.

Dr. Pelopidas Lomvardas

Pelopidas Lombardas graduated from the Dental School of Athens in 1991.

He continued his studies at Columbia, New York where he completed his specialization in prosthetics and received his MSc in 1997.

Since then he maintains a private dental practice in Athens where he deals with general dentistry with an emphasis on oral rehabilitation and the treatment of cranio-maxillary disorders.

He has been actively involved in the Dental Society of Greece since 1991 and for the last fifteen years he has been the vice-president of the company’s Board of Directors.

He participates in conferences and other scientific events as a speaker with the main topic of Occlusion, oral restoration (conventional and peri-implant) and craniomandibular disorders. He has also been a member of the Board of Directors of the Attica Dental Association.

He has published articles in Greek and English magazines and has participated in the writing of dental journals. He has translated two dental books from English to Greek.

Vangelis Konstantopoulos was awarded with a BSc Honours degree with study in industry in Dental technology from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2004. During his stay in the UK, he worked in the fields of fixed and removable prosthodontics in   Portland ceramics l.t.d. and for n.h.s. in Manchester dental hospital.

Since his return in Athens, he worked as a lecturer in Ippokratios Dental College and since 2008 he works as a dental technologist and owns a dental laboratory involved in the digital era mainly.

He has participated in courses in Greece, lecturing on topics related to implant Prosthodontics, all-ceramic restorations, cad designing, dental printing and occlusion. Following the same prosthetic principles he integrates and expands CAD/CAM technology applications in the workflow of his commercial laboratory.