Dr. Costa Nicolopoulos, Specialist Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon, ZAGA specialist, and Co-Founder of SameDay Dental Implants in Dubai, presented at the second International ZYGOMAX Congress in Athens, Greece, held July 2 to 4, 2026.
Dr. Costa opened the congress on July 2 alongside Dr. Miljan Micunovic, founder of the Zygomax Association. On July 3, he delivered a session titled "Zygomatic Implant Fractures - Management and Prevention."
The congress gathered implant specialists from the United States, Europe, Australia, South America, and beyond. Sessions covered advanced treatment for patients with severe bone loss in the jaw — cases that would otherwise be turned away by clinics offering only standard implants.
Severe bone loss disqualifies many patients from conventional dental implants. Zygomatic implants solve this by anchoring into the cheekbone instead of the jawbone, restoring a full, fixed set of teeth without bone grafting — often in a single day. This is the exact patient group SameDay Dental Clinic specializes in treating, an area of expertise that sets the clinic apart from other providers in Dubai.
Dr. Costa's session addressed a critical safety topic in this field: how to prevent and manage implant fractures, a complication that requires advanced surgical training to treat correctly.
Zygomatic implants exist for exactly this reason: patients with severe bone loss who have been told elsewhere that they don't qualify for implants, and don't want bone grafting. SameDay Dental Clinic treats this patient group as a specialty, not an exception — a level of expertise that sets it apart from other clinics in Dubai.
That expertise is backed by two credentials no other Dubai clinic holds together: SameDay is the first and only certified ZAGA Center in the UAE and GCC, and the only Associated Brånemark Osseointegration Center (ABOC) in the Middle East. Dr. Costa's session in Athens, on preventing and managing implant fractures, is a direct extension of that same standard of care patients receive at SameDay in Dubai.
