What to expect?

• Hear how defining choices shaped Jeannette Chua’s purpose-driven career.

• Learn about her pragmatic framework for immediacy, soft-tissue management, and common pitfalls.

• Discover her education-first vision for Digitalization, AI, and robotics in implant dentistry.

Choosing purpose over the easy path

Dr. Jeanette Chua charts a non-linear journey that starts in Singapore and Australia, moves through specialty training in the USA, and returns to Asia to found the Artius Dental Group. A pivotal moment occurs when a mentor’s slide challenge makes implants indistinguishable from natural teeth, convincing her that implantology reshapes practice. She frames career choices as phased trade-offs – family, study, and work each take turns – while emphasizing responsibility for long-term patient outcomes.

Regeneration as the north star

Jeanette Chua treats periodontics as an all-encompassing discipline anchored in regeneration – bone, soft tissue, and biology – rather than a split between “soft-tissue” and “implant” camps. For immediacy in the esthetic zone, she weighs site, patient, and neighboring teeth against a long checklist of clinical criteria, then prioritizes primary stability and thoughtful provisionalization. Her caution flags two extremes: chasing perfect angulation at the cost of biology, and over-angulating for torque while neglecting occlusion and fit. Digital workflows and modern implant designs shorten chair time and improve predictability, but ethics, expectations, and patient-reported happiness still guide decisions.

Education, community, and the next decade

As an ITI leader and founder of Ancora Imparo (“I’m still learning”), she builds training that combines live surgery, microscopes, and mentoring to elevate teams and referrers—not just individual operators. She sees dentistry accelerating toward AI-assisted planning and robotic execution, with clinicians remaining accountable for diagnosis, indications, and safety. Longevity, system reliability, and transparent learning from complications define her standard for products and practice, reinforcing a community ethos of sharing what works—and what doesn’t.

Key takeaways

• Regeneration drives superior, ethical implant care; perfectionism without biology risks failure.

• Immediacy succeeds when stability, occlusion, fit, and patient expectations align.

• Continuous education plus responsible adoption of digital, AI, and robotics future-proofs practice

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