Tomonari Okawa

Tomonari Okawa Tomonari Okawa

Tomonari Okawa

Germany, Hamburg

Tomonari Okawa – Master Dental Technician, Master of Fine Arts.

Education:
1986-1990 Dental technician training and ceramic studies at the Nippon Dental University College at Tokyo, Japan.
2004 Master dental technician examinaLon in Münster.
2022 Graduated from Kyoto University of Art, Department of Art and Liberal Arts. 

2024 Graduate School of Kyoto University of Arts, Interdisciplinary Design Research Area.

Career:
04.1990 Assistant at the Nippon Dental University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
04.1994 T.Dental Studio, a dental laboratory, opened in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan.
03.1996 ZTM Johannes Müller, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Germany.
09.1997 ZTM Thomas Kühn Zahntechnik, Königswinter, Germany.
10.1997 “Art Oral” Klaus Müterthies, Gütersloh, Germany.
10.2003 Dental pracLce Dr.Konrad Reithmeyer, Lüneburg, Germany.
03.2005 Opening of the dental laboratory “Okawa Zahntechnik” in Hamburg,Germany 03.2015 Organ Dental Technology Hamburg, name changed, Hamburg, Germany. 

Clinical activity:
2008 13th Dental Technology Training Seminar, Sand in Taufers, Italy.
2009 36th International Training Conference, St. Moritz, Switzerland
2010 Welcome to the Future III, London, UK.
2011 9th Laboratory forum Morita, Tokyo, Japan.
2011 GC Initial Congress, Tokyo, Japan
2012 4th Goldevent, Oberwiesenthal, Germany.
2013 16th colloquium dental, Nuremberg, Germany.
2014 18th Prosthetics Symposium, Berlin, Germany.
2014 Sky Meeting 2014, Berlin, Germany.
2014 7th Zahngipfel Allgäu Vollkeramik-Symposium in Kempten, Allgäu, Germany.
2015 LABFORUM 5, Kiev, Ukraine.
2016 34th Annual Congress of the Japanese Society for Maxillofacial ArLculaLon, Tokyo, Japan.
2017 10.Zahngipfel Allgäu Vollkeramik-Symposium in Kempten, Allgäu, Germany.
2018 Bridging DenLstry Congress in Istanbul, Türkiye.
2018 XXIV 2018 Congresso ACADEN in Granada, Spain.
2019 Japan Society of Prosthetic Dentistry 128th Annual Meeting, Poster Presentation “A case of unilateral zirconia bonded bridge in a young German paLent after 10 years” in Hokkaido, Japan.
2020 Presented a poster at the 129th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association for Prosthetic Dentistry, “Usefulness of positioning sprints at the bondingin for cantilever zirconia resin-bonded fixed dental prostheses” in Web.
2021 Poster presentation at the 130th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Prosthetic Dentistry, “Usefulness of positioning sprints at the bonding for zirconia cantilever resin-bonded fixed dental prostheses” in Web.
2022 Poster presentation at the 131st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Prosthetic Dentistry, “Clinical results of aesthetic treatment with adhesive technology in orthodontic treatment” in Osaka, Japan.
2022 The 131st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Prosthetic Dentistry, “From the Dentist’s and Technician’s Perspective Challenges and Prospects of Zirconia Prosthetic Devices” in Osaka, Japan.
2023 Poster presentation at the 132nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Prosthetic Dentistry, “A case of esthetic restoration by an inexperienced surgeon using adhesive techniques”.
2023 The 9th International Congress of the Japanese Society of Prosthodontics, Session “Prosthetic and Restorative Devices in the MI Era” in Yokohama, Japan.
2023 Poster presentation at the 19th Annual Congress of the DGOI, poster case “The benefits of the positioning key in restorations with all-ceramic adhesive bridges as an alternative or accompaniment to implant therapy- a case report” in Yokohama, Japan.
2024 The 133st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Prosthetic Dentistry, “Worked on RBFDPs, a German esthetic prosthesis that fulfills MI, POS and EBM” in Makuhari, Japan.
2024 Poster presentation at the 133st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Prosthetic Dentistry, “A case of resin-bonded fixed dental protheses with pontic design for two consecutive missing anterior teeth” in Makuhari, Japan.

Awards:
2024 Awards of the Japanese Society of Prosthetic Dentistry, Best prize of the clinical compeLLon “Worked on RBFDPs, a German esthetic prosthesis that fulfills MI, POS and EBM” in Makuhari, Japan.

Literature and Writings:
2009 Okawa T., Einfach schichten, das dental labor 2009;(57):pp.1352-1357.
2011 Okawa T., Ansprechend und reproduzierbar, dental dialoge
2011;(12):pp.14-19.
2011 Okawa T., Nishimura T., “All-ceramic restorations in the maxillary esthetic field”.
today: five cases of esthetic restorations by a Japanese dental technician meister,” Monthly Dental Technology, Iyakuyaku Shuppan 2011;39(2): pp.171- 189.
2017 Tomonari Okawa, Kentaro Nakamura, “Toward patient-oriented prosthetic treatment,” QDT Quintessence Publishing 2017;(42):PP.124-135.
2017 Tomonari Okawa, “Trinity of Esthetic Restoration for Restoration of Esthetics, Pronunciation, and Function,” Monthly Dental Technology, Iyakuyaku Shuppan, 2017(45):pp.433-449.
2018 Kentaro Nakamura, Tomonari Okawa, Kern M. “Now is the Time to Reconsider the OpLon of Unilateral Zirconia Bonded Bridges,” QDT, Quintessence Publishing 2018;(43):pp.1380-1399.
2019 Kentaro Nakamura, Hidefumi Tonoshiro, Masakazu Imai, Dan Matsumae, Tomonari Okawa, “Sequelae: The Option of Cantilever Zirconia Bonded Bridges to Reconsider Now,” QDT, Quintessence Publishing 2019;(44): pp.1828-1878.
2019 Okawa T., Nakamura K., Systematische Behandlungsschripe für einflügelige vollkeramische Adhäsivbrücken, Quintessenz Zahntechnik. Quintessenz Publishing 2019;(45) pp. 1482-1492.
04.2021-09.2022
“Tomonari Okawa, ‘RBFDPs Cantilever Adhesive Bridges, One Point Lesson for Success,’ QDT Quintessence Publishing, 18 installments.”