Perio Workshop

The EFP Perio Workshop, also known as the European Workshop in Periodontology, is a world-leading scientific meeting on periodontal science.

It is one of the EFP’s main activities because it establishes the knowledge base of the different areas of periodontology on a global scale. This scientific gathering of the main European and global experts encourages the spread of knowledge through the establishment of systematic reviews, structured literature reviews, and consensus agreements of great relevance and impact to the scientific community.

Since 1993, the Workshop has covered topics including periodontitis and systemic diseases, the effective prevention of periodontal and peri-implant diseases, the classification of periodontal and peri-implant diseases and conditions, and periodontal education. The findings of all workshops since 2002 have been published in free-access monographic editions of the Journal of Clinical Periodontology. The proceedings of the first three workshops were published by Quintessence Publishing.

The workshops were initially held in Ittingen, Switzerland, under the chairmanship of Niklaus Lang. Since 2009, they have been held in La Granja de San Ildefonso, Spain, chaired by Mariano Sanz. In 2012 the first joint workshop involving the EFP and the American Academy of Periodontology (AAP) took place and a second joint workshop involving the two organisations is scheduled for 2017.

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