News & Events

The latest news from the EFP as well as details of its forthcoming events and those of its affiliated national societies of periodontology.

Perio Master Clinic 2026 Baku

The EFP International Perio Master Clinic is the premier forum for the promotion of clinical excellence in emerging and important clinical challenges in our specialty.

Perio Workshop

Learn about Perio Workshop, the EFP’s annual scientific meeting that brings the best periodontal scientists together to reach a new consensus on strategic periodontal issues.

All publications

01 January 1970

Categories: Partners, Article

EFP - Shaping the future: the role of AI in periodontology

17 October 2024
Categories: Partners, Article

P&G - Pearls on film – how AI uses cameras in the mouth

17 September 2024
Categories: Clinical & Translational Research, JCP Digest, Article

Decision-making on using systemic antibiotics to treat periodontitis

06 September 2024

A retrospective analysis comparing the clinical effectiveness and the frequency of antibiotic usage between two different decision-making strategies in the management of periodontitis.
Categories: Clinical & Translational Research, JCP Digest, Article

Can we avoid surgery for peri-implantitis with systemic antibiotics?

22 August 2024

This retrospective cohort study assesses the prolonged impacts of systemically administered amoxicillin and metronidazole, alongside non-surgical sub-marginal instrumentation, and evaluates the requirement for additional surgical treatment during the...
Categories: Treatment, Podcast

Socket preservation

05 August 2024

Host Bruno de Carvalho speaks to Dr Nikos Mardas to provide insights into the latest developments and challenges in the field.
Categories: Clinical & Translational Research, JCP Digest, Article

Short versus long implants: when does size matter?

30 July 2024

A systematic review/meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) to evaluate the survival rates (primary outcome), as well as marginal bone loss (MBL) and complications of short implants (≤6mm) compared to long implants (≥10mm) in specific...
Categories: Clinical & Translational Research, Article

Adjacent teeth have no impact on marginal bone levels around implants

30 July 2024

In the final of a series of articles by the four winners of the EFP Graduate Research Prize 2023, Lucienne Weigel (University of Bern, Switzerland) describes a retrospective study into marginal bone level changes around dental implants.
Categories: Clinical & Translational Research, Treatment, Article

What happens after healing when keratinised and non-keratinised tissue are transpositioned?

23 July 2024

EFP Graduate Research Prize 2023 co-winner Andrea Roccuzzo (University of Bern, Switzerland) explores healing after heterotopic mucosa transpositioning at dental implants and teeth.
Categories: Clinical & Translational Research, Treatment, Article

Which PRF preparation offers most potential for osteogenesis?

11 July 2024

Konstantinos Kosmidis (Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam, The Netherlands) outlines the findings of a study of the osteogenesis potential of three different PRF preparations.