René Foltán

Prof. MUDr. et MUDr. René Foltán, PhD., FEBOMFS

He graduated in Dentistry from the Faculty of Medicine of Charles University in Hradec Králové in 1993 and in General Medicine from the same faculty in 1998.

Since 1994, he has worked at the Department of Stomatology of the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, and the General University Hospital in Prague, where he has been an assistant professor since 1996. In 2008, he defended his PhD thesis on “Surgical Therapy of OSA”. Since 2011, he has been an associate professor in Dentistry and since 2017 a full professor in the same field.

He has been in private practice in oral, maxillofacial, and facial surgery since 1996. He has been actively involved in implantology since 1997 and has been placing Swedish Brånemark implants since 1998, being one of the first in the Czech Republic.

He has worked at Dep. of Oral and Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery University of Zurich, Switzerland, and at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in Guildford, England. Since 2013, he has been the head of the Department of Stomatology of the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, and the General University Hospital in Prague. His main specialties are corrective surgery of congenital facial deformities, orthognathic surgery and surgical treatment of obstructive sleep apnea.

He is also intensely engaged in research, as evidenced by successfully completed grants from the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic and by the volume and quality of his publications, including many papers in leading international journals, as well as his extensive lecturing activity both in the Czech Republic and abroad.

He is actively involved in undergraduate teaching in both dental medicine and general medicine at the First Faculty of Medicine of Charles University in Prague. He also participates in postgraduate education in oral, maxillofacial, and facial surgery within Charles University and the Institute for Postgraduate Medical Education in Prague.

The Role of Digital Technologies in Orthognathic Surgery for Comprehensive Aesthetic Dental Rehabilitation

Aesthetic dental rehabilitations are increasingly demanded by patients. The aesthetic principles of ideal tooth form and position and of an attractive smile, as well as planning protocols and clinical workflow, are now well established, but primarily for patients with average horizontal and vertical craniofacial skeletal parameters. In patients who deviate from these average values, our options to improve aesthetics are rather limited, and it is often not possible to achieve the highest contemporary prosthodontic aesthetic standards by prosthetic treatment alone.

Orthognathic surgery offers a unique opportunity to improve skeletal facial parameters in such patients, thereby enabling the highest possible level of smile and dental aesthetics. Based on a retrospective analysis of our patients, we will present the digital technologies for key craniofacial measurements that determine optimal aesthetics, together with 3D planing of orthognathic surgical procedures that make it possible to achieve ideal facial beauty, nice smile and dental health. The focus will be on the three-dimensional repositioning of the maxillary incisors, transverse maxillary parameters, and the possibilities of altering the occlusal plane to enhance aesthetics. We will also briefly discuss how orthognathic procedures can be used as part of alveolar bone augmentation strategies in patients with pronounced three‑dimensional atrophy of the maxilla before dental implants placement.