Fri 10 October 2025 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Interdisciplinary restorative management and treatment planning
Complex functional and aesthetic cases can challenge us at the best of times. Taking our patients on an interdisciplinary journey to their final destination requires planning, patience and above all good communication between our patients and fellow colleagues.
Collaboration is key, come see how some of Victoria’s well known Specialists navigate everyday functional and aesthetic challenges.
Decision making for the heavily compromised dentition, managing gingival aesthetic concerns including congenitally missing laterals and the management of the hopeless central incisor.
Presented by Dr Philip Yeung, Dr Kurien Mamootil, Dr Hossam El-Haddad, Dr Yana Itskovich, Dr Luan Ngo, Dr Gordon Burt
Held in conjunction with 
This CPD event is a joint collaboration with ADAVB Northern Group and all the affiliates.
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CPD hours: 6 clinical hours
RSVP by Friday 3 October 2025
Please note: Photographs may be taken at this event and may be used on the ADAVB website, social media or publications to promote ADAVB events and ADAVB membership. Please advise us if you do not wish to be photographed.
Schedule
Speakers
Dr Hossam El-Haddad 
Hossam graduated from Ain Shams University (Cairo, Egypt) in 2006, and worked in both public and private sectors before relocating to Australia in 2010. Hossam obtained the Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons in 2015, and graduated with a Doctorate of Clinical Dentistry in Prosthodontics from The University of Melbourne in 2018. He has now joined a specialist practices in Essendon and Launceston, Tasmania.
Dr Luan Ngo 
Graduating with honours from the University of Melbourne in 1999, Dr Ngo worked in both public and private practice until 2003, when he commenced a PhD in the field of periodontics looking at biomarkers for periodontal disease. He completed the didactic component of his specialist training in periodontics in 2009. Since then, Dr Ngo has been working in both private practice and as an academic at the University of Melbourne.
Dr Ngo has travelled to Vietnam with the Rotary Australia-Vietnam Dental Health Project. He volunteered his time in both the education of periodontists (in training) at the National Hospital of Odontostomatology in Ho Chi Minh City, as well as providing needed dental care for rural school children in the south of Vietnam.
Dr Ngo is currently the lecturer in periodontics and convenor of the undergraduate (now graduate entry) periodontics program at the Melbourne Dental School. He is a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons in the specialist field of periodontics.
Dr Gordon Burt 
Dr Gordon Burt graduated from The London Hospital Medical College. He has an MSc. from the Institute of Dental Surgery, University of London, in prosthetic dentistry and an MS in prosthodontics from the University of Minnesota. Dr Burt is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons and Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He is in private prosthodontic practice in Melbourne and a demonstrator for the DCD programme in prosthodontics at Melbourne Dental School. Dr Burt provides treatment for patients with acquired maxillofacial defects at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and is an examiner for the RCS Edinburgh Diploma in Implant Dentistry.
Dr Phil Yeung 
Dr Phil Yeung graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1988. In 1993 he returned to the University of Melbourne and completed a Graduate Diploma in Clinical Dentistry. In 1999 he received a combined Master of Science and Certificate in Prosthodontics from the University of Iowa (USA). He is presently working as a Prosthodontist in Collins Street, Melbourne and has previously been involved as a clinical demonstrator for the Graduate Diploma of Implant Dentistry course at the University of Melbourne.
He has lectured extensively throughout the main States in Australia and New Zealand on a range of Prosthodontic, Restorative and Implant dentistry topics. He has also run several continuing dental education courses on topics such as Digital Photography in Dentistry and Advanced Implant Restorative Techniques.
He has lectured extensively throughout the main States in Australia, New Zealand and USA on a range of Prosthodontic, Restorative and Implant dentistry topics. He has also run several continuing dental education courses on topics such as Digital Photography in Dentistry and Advanced Implant Restorative Techniques.
Dr Kurien Mamootil 
Dr Kurien Mamootil completed his undergraduate training in Dentistry in 1994 and his specialist training in Endodontics from the University of Melbourne in 2004. He has also completed his Fellowship with the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons.
Kurien has served as a clinical demonstrator and Examiner in the Specialist endodontic training program at the University of Melbourne, a clinical demonstrator at La Trobe University and as an examiner in Endodontics for the Australian Dental Council. He has been actively involved with the Australian Society of Endodontology serving as President of both the Victorian branch and the Federal branch.
Kurien is the principal endodontist at Geelong Endodontic Specialists. He is actively involved in continuing education in Endodontics and has presented domestically and internationally.
Dr Yana Itskovich 
Dr Yana Itskovich graduated from Griffith University in 2008 and went on to complete her postgraduate specialty degree in Orthodontics at the University of Otago, New Zealand, in 2016.
She works in private practice at Camberwell Orthodontic Group, where she treats a wide range of orthodontic cases using both braces and clear aligners, with a focus on delivering personalised and comprehensive care.
Since 2018, Yana has also been a Senior Lecturer in Orthodontics at The University of Melbourne, where she is actively involved in teaching and mentoring dental students. She is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons (FRACDS) and remains committed to ongoing education and clinical excellence.
Yana’s philosophy is to listen carefully, provide honest advice, and offer individualised treatment options that suit each patient’s unique needs and goals.
Outside of work, Yana enjoys being a mum to her three boys and spending quality time with family and friends.
