A supra-regional network of doctors helps with complications following implantation

ZIES Frankfurt offers, for the first time, comprehensive diagnostics and therapy for post-implantation complications, inflammation and pain in the head and neck area

Founded in May 2010, ZIES (Center for Implant-Related Injuries, Inflammation, and Pain), headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, is an interdisciplinary, supraregional center for the diagnosis and treatment of implant-related injuries, inflammation, and pain in the head and neck region. Patients with these conditions often undergo a multitude of different, sometimes contradictory, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. This frequently leads to stigmatization, both physically and psychosocially. The doctor-patient relationship is ultimately experienced as a frustrating dead end. Those affected give up and are lost to medical efforts without having received the help they need. One reason for this is the increasingly scarce resources in the healthcare system, such as insufficient time for adequate medical history taking and interpretation of findings, or limited access to sophisticated imaging diagnostics.

Inflammation and nerve damage

Causes of pain: inflammation and nerve damage

The ZIES's cooperation partners each possess extensive expertise and clinical experience in their respective fields. They have developed team competence through many years of collaboration. The center utilizes state-of-the-art imaging techniques, including orthopantomography (OPG), digital volume tomography (DVT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), and positron emission tomography (PET).

As an interdisciplinary network, the ZIES facilitates a qualified, collaborative interpretation of findings by radiologists, nuclear medicine specialists, ENT specialists, oral and maxillofacial surgeons, and dentists. Neurologists and psychosomatic medicine specialists are also consulted as part of the diagnostic process. After evaluating the clinical and paraclinical findings, a decision regarding further conservative and/or surgical treatment is made in close consultation with the patient and their family.

Because of the often exhausting personal history of the patients, accompanying neurological-behavioral therapy or psychosomatic-psychotherapeutic co-treatment has proven effective in the work of the center.

The ZIES cooperation partners are:

  • Prof. Dr. med. Dipl. Psych. Hartmut Göbel, Neurological-Behavioral Medicine Pain Clinic Kiel
  • Dr. med. et med. dent. Michael Nübler-Moritz, ZIES Frankfurt am Main
  • Prof. Dr. med. Dr. med. dent. Dr. hc mult. Hermann F. Sailer, Professor Sailer Clinic, Specialist Clinic for Aesthetic Facial, Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery Zurich
  • Prof. Dr. med. Guido Sauter in collaboration with Dr. med. Jozef Zustin, Diagnostic Center and Institute of Pathology at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
  • Prof. Dr. med. Carl E. Scheidt, Thure von Uexküll Clinic, Hospital for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy Freiburg and University Hospital Freiburg, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy. The following are working as consultants for ZIES Frankfurt:
  • Prof. em. Dr. med. Dieter Böhmer for the field of hyperbaric oxygen therapy
  • Douglas E. Toll, DDS, for the field of orthodontics
  • Radiological and nuclear medicine diagnostics are performed at the University Hospital of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main by Prof. Dr. med. Thomas J. Vogl (Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology) and Prof. Dr. med. Frank Grünwald (Clinic for Nuclear Medicine).

Contact:

ZIES – Center for Implant Post-Process Inflammation and Pain
Dr. med. et med. dent. Michael Nübler-Moritz
An der Hauptwache 7 60313 Frankfurt am Main
Tel: +49(0) 69 91394707
Fax: +49(0) 69 91394706
info@zies-frankfurt.de
www.zies-frankfurt.de