A groundbreaking partnership for dentistry in Romania

• The DENT ESTET network of dental clinics is the only one in Romania to have met the selection criteria set out in Professor Paulo Malo’s implantology protocol;
• Professor Paulo Malo’s collaboration with the team of implantology specialists at DENT ESTET will involve performing procedures for complex cases, as well as mentoring and consultancy sessions for the DENT ESTET medical team;
• Romanian patients with complex dental conditions will thus have access to an innovative treatment protocol with immediate results, without having to travel abroad for treatment;
• Prof. Paulo Malo is the creator of the Malo Protocol® – surgical techniques and systems that have changed the paradigm in implantology, including the All-on-4® concept, which allows the insertion of a four-implant system in a single day for completely edentulous patients, without the need for bone grafting.

Bucharest, 6 October 2020: The DENT ESTET network of clinics announces its collaboration, a first for Romania, with Prof. Dr. Paulo Malo, a world-renowned expert in dental implantology. As part of its strategy for expansion into the international market and in light of Romania’s development potential, Prof. Malo visited several clinics in Bucharest last year, and the only one to meet the performance criteria was the DENT ESTET network of clinics.

At DENT ESTET, Prof. Malo will mentor the highly specialised team of implantologists and prosthodontists, ensuring the full adoption of the most advanced techniques in global implantology. Furthermore, Prof. Malo will be directly involved in resolving complex cases of oral rehabilitation, particularly those involving severe bone atrophy.  

The partnership between Prof. Malo and DENT ESTET both confirms and strengthens the extensive expertise of the clinic’s doctors and is all the more relevant given that Romanian patients experience complex dental problems at an earlier age than those in more developed countries. The latest study conducted by 360Insights for DENT ESTET shows that 4 in 10 urban residents in Romania are missing at least one tooth[1]. This is caused by poor oral hygiene and a lack of preventive measures or failure to adhere to a schedule of regular check-ups. All these factors lead to premature tooth loss, and statistics show that in our country this happens earlier than in other highly developed nations.

“Prof. Malo’s selection of the DENT ESTET Group of Clinics as his sole partner in Romania represents the validation of our work over the past 20 years. We have an enormous responsibility, both towards patients and towards the young doctors whom we and our colleagues in the field are training, with the aim of improving performance in Romanian dentistry, and the partnership with Prof. Malo provides us with the necessary tools to offer the best solutions to Romanian patients facing complex dental problems.” – says Dr. Oana Taban – CEO and Founder of the DENT ESTET group of clinics

The surgical techniques pioneered by Prof. Malo have brought about radical changes in the way dental implants are performed.

Prof. Malo is a trailblazer in the medical world, a surgeon who has shifted the paradigm, so that cases which once seemed impossible to treat or which required bone grafting with very long healing times can now be resolved in a short period using minimally invasive techniques for the patient.

The revolutionary Malo Protocol® comprises innovative surgical techniques that reduce treatment time, increase the success rate to 98% for complex implantology cases, and cut the cost of the procedure by almost half compared to conventional solutions.

Through his innovations, combined with ongoing clinical and scientific research, it has even become possible to treat cases of edentulism that would previously have required only removable dentures, with a fixed solution that is both highly functional and aesthetic, thereby improving the quality of life for these patients.

Inventor, surgeon, leader, mentor and entrepreneur, Professor Malo founded the Malo Clinic group in 1995, a network that has expanded to 22 countries across five continents.

In 2019, he launched MALO Dental International, a company that already covers 150 clinics across 20 countries and offers expertise to specialists wishing to implement, through medical excellence, the innovations that make it possible to treat any case of total or partial edentulism, quickly and with immediate results for patients.

The best-known surgical technique invented by Prof. Paulo Malo is the All-on-4® concept, a procedure that allows a system of four implants to be inserted in a single day for completely edentulous patients, without the need for bone grafting.

In Prof. Malo’s view, “if you put quality into everything you do, success follows naturally. However, when we talk about resounding global success, this can only be achieved by combining quality with innovation”.

This is one of the reasons why, since 1993, Prof. Malo has worked alongside the Nobel Biocare brand – the number one manufacturer in the United States of dental implant materials. The concept was subsequently replicated by other manufacturers, being implemented at various performance levels, such as the premium Straumann Pro Arch system or the standard Fast&Fix system from Bredent.

The uniqueness of the implants developed by Nobel Biocare lies in their versatility. The Nobel Biocare portfolio includes all types of implants, in various sizes and with different technical specifications, so that they can be used regardless of the patient’s medical condition.

Prof. Malo’s protocol for the complete rehabilitation of dental arches has enabled thousands of implantologists worldwide to achieve this essential goal for their patients, and this is now also possible in Romania, to the highest standards.

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The DENT ESTET Group is the most comprehensive dental network in Romania and comprises 10 clinics, 3 integrated digital radiology centres, the first intensive care unit (ICU) within a dental clinic in Romania, with a team of 14 anaesthesia specialists, 4 Future Smile Design photography studios, 4 psychology practices and a medical management training programme. The total floor space exceeds 3,600 square metres. In 2019, DENT ESTET launched the Digital Implantology Masterplan, offering patients extended guarantees through access to integrated high-tech technologies, including: revolutionary laser equipment (Waterlase, Biolase), the 3Shape Trios Real Color intraoral scanner, digital guidance software (3Shape Implant Studio), the ORGF centrifuge, Future Smile Studio – a 3D diagnostic studio, a digital dental laboratory and a digital radiology laboratory.

The DENT ESTET Group was founded in 1999 and is currently the market leader in dental services in Romania. Over its 20-year history, the team has grown to 350 specialists, 110 of whom are dentists. Recognised for its contribution to the development of private dentistry in Romania, the DENT ESTET group of clinics operates the country’s first fully digital dental clinic and the largest Planmeca Digital Academy centre. Among the major innovations introduced to the Romanian market are DENT ESTET 4 KIDS (2008) and DENT ESTET 4 TEENS (2012), the first dental clinics in Romania and Eastern Europe dedicated exclusively to children and teenagers, and, last but not least, the Dental Office Managers Association (ADOM), under whose umbrella the courses of the first school for managers specialising in dental clinics are held. Since 2016, DENT ESTET has been part of the MedLife group, the largest private healthcare provider in our country.