APS Victoria branch presents:
Dinner-meeting
Prosthodontics Beyond the Ordinary: Applying Conventional Principles to Unconventional Cases
Join Dr Chen Chen and Dr Anny Huang, both maxillofacial prosthodontists, for an engaging, case-based session exploring the application of familiar prosthodontic principles to non-conventional maxillary and mandibular rehabilitation. Through a series of short, focused case presentations, they will demonstrate how core prosthodontic concepts and design can guide treatment planning across a wide range of complex clinical scenarios—including complete edentulism, hemi-maxillary defects, open versus closed designs, and fixed versus removable options, even when implants are limited or not feasible.
This session aims to encourage discussion around decision-making, and reinforce transferable principles, as well as provide clinically applicable insights, relevant to both general dentists and specialist Prosthodontists.
Dr Anny Huang completed her dental degree at Griffith University and specialist training in Prosthodontics at the University of Melbourne. She is currently undertaking a Maxillofacial Prosthodontic Fellowship at the Chris O’Brien Lifehouse, where she is involved in the rehabilitation of patients with complex maxillofacial defects following head and neck cancer treatment.
Dr Huang enjoys integrating digital workflows with conventional analogue techniques to deliver functional, aesthetic, and patient-centred outcomes, particularly in non-conventional clinical scenarios with anatomical, surgical, or implant-related limitations.
Dr Chen Chen is an Australian-registered Specialist Prosthodontist and a Diplomate of the American Board of Prosthodontics. She completed her dental degree at the University of Queensland in 2008 and initially worked with the Royal Flying Doctors Service in Cape York. In 2015, she completed the Implant Grad Dip at the University of Melbourne.
After some more years in private practice, she moved to America to complete a three- year Advance
d Prosthodontics residency at USC and then a Fellowship in Maxillofacial Prosthetics at UCLA.
In addition to private practice, Chen lectures and supervises postgraduate residents in Prosthodontics and Maxillofacial Prosthodontics at the University of Melbourne and collaborates with the OMFS team at Geelong University Hospital in the rehabilitation of head and neck cancer patients.
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