If dental health-care professionals treat all patients with standardized treatments, we assume that every patient is the “average patient.” We often see patients who are outliers and do not respond as expected to treatment. The 2017 AAP/EFP World Workshop on the Classification of Periodontal and Peri-Implant Diseases and Conditions (2017 WWDC) includes individualized risk assessment in periodontal diagnosis. This risk assessment can allow dental health-care professionals to deliver personalized periodontal care. This course will address how to incorporate the periodontal disease classification into real-world dental practice and will include a step-by-step approach to case assessment to create diagnostic calibration of the dental team using the 2017 WWDC system to identify disease severity and risk of future disease progression.
Educational objectives
- Critically evaluate the current diagnostic system for periodontitis based upon the 2017 AAP/EFP WWDC
- Recognize the distinct definitions of periodontal “stage” and “grade” and their impact on patient care
- Evaluate patients’ risk factors to allow personalization of periodontal care in patients with various periodontal diagnoses
- Effectively stratify patients and identify therapeutic needs based upon accurate diagnoses and risk assessment
About the Author
Mia L. Geisinger, DDS, MS, is a professor and director of advanced education in periodontology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Dr. Geisinger received her BS in biology from Duke University, her DDS from Columbia University School of Dental Medicine, and her MS and Certificate in Periodontology and Implantology from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Dr. Geisinger is a diplomate in the American Board of Periodontology. She has served as the president of the American Academy of Periodontology Foundation, as the chair of the American Dental Association’s Council on Scientific Affairs, as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Dental Association Science and Research Institute, and on multiple national and regional organized dentistry committees. She currently serves as the president-elect of the American Academy of Periodontology. She has authored over 75 peer-reviewed publications and she lectures nationally and internationally on topics in periodontology and oral health care.
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Course Includes
- 1 Lesson
- 1 Test
- Course Certificate
CE credit(s): 3
Course Type: Written
Published Date: October 2024
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