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How International Perio Master Clinic 2027 in Brazil will boost interdisciplinary collaboration

08 October 2026

The EFP’s Perio Master Clinic 2027, to be held on April 30 and May 1 next year in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will focus on the “Perio-Restorative Interplay”. Mariano Sanz, the event’s scientific chair, outlines how the interdisciplinary approach improves patient care and treatment outcomes.

Interdisciplinarity has become crucial in modern dentistry, reflecting a shift from viewing oral health and related treatment in isolation to understanding them as part of overall systemic health and patient well-being.  As a consequence, the dental profession’s effort to meet patients’ demands for improved health and better aesthetic and functional outcomes requires not only developing evidence-based protocols and new treatment options but also deep knowledge of complex technologies that go far beyond traditional training.

This interdisciplinary approach not only addresses the complex relationship between oral health and overall human wellbeing, but ultimately results in more comprehensive patient care and improved treatment outcomes.

This integration has transformed workflows into more comprehensive, efficient, and multidisciplinary approaches to therapy, while also generating innovations that continue to advance the field.

A clear example of this concept is the treatment of aesthetically compromised cases requiring the combination of periodontal, dental implant, and restorative rehabilitation. This perio-restorative interface represents one of the most critical interdisciplinary relationships in modern dentistry.  

The use of digital technologies enables pre-assessment of the most suitable periodontal (biological) and prosthetic (restorative) strategies in a virtual environment, followed by integration into a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach. This virtual environment, along with artificial intelligence (AI) tools, will enable the development of hyper-realistic virtual smile scenarios, providing highly personalized treatment plans that optimize restorative outcomes, both aesthetically and functionally. These environments also enhance professional-patient communication, which may foster active patient involvement in treatment decisions and increase their satisfaction with the proposed treatments.

The EFP Perio Master Clinic 2027 in Rio de Janeiro will bring together the most experienced practitioners to integrate periodontics, implant surgery, and restorative dentistry for the management of complex cases. It will focus on integrating deep knowledge of the biology of hard and soft tissues, surgical skills, the use of digital tools, the management of modern dental materials, and the the application latest restorative solutions.

International Perio Master Clinic 2027 features more than 30 speakers in eight sessions:

APRIL 30

Surgical and restorative treatments for smile enhancement

Treatment of severe periodontitis (stages III and IV)

Treatment of multiple adjacent recessions

The video clinical experience of treating the anterior maxilla with surgical crown lengthening and minimally invasive restorations

 

MAY 1

Treatment of the anterior maxilla in a periodontally compromised dentition

Treatment of bone defects in the anterior maxilla

The treatment of stage IV, class 2 periodontitis combining periodontal regeneration and orthodontic tooth movements

The video clinical experience of treating single tooth replacement with tooth auto-transplantation

Biography

Mariano Sanz is the director of postgraduate periodontology (EFP-accredited programme) and the ETEP (Etiology and Therapy of Periodontal and Peri-Implant Diseases) research group at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) in Spain, and a Type II professor at the University of Oslo in Norway. Professor Sanz has published over 545 scientific publications (ORCID # 0000-0002-6293-5755; h-index 89), and is an international lecturer on topics in periodontology, implant dentistry, and dental education. He has served the EFP as president, secretary general, and chair of the workshop committee. He has received six honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Goteborg (Sweden), Coimbra (Portugal), San Sebastián (Santiago de Chile), the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), the Medical University of Warsaw (Poland), and the University of Athens (Greece).