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Perio Master Clinic 2026 offers insight and expertise into the perio-restorative interplay
03 October 2025
The EFP’s Perio Master Clinic 2026, to be held in March next year in Baku, Azerbaijan, 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 in isolation to understanding it as part of overall systemic health and patient wellbeing.
In fact, the effort to meet patients’ demands for improved health, together with better aesthetic and functional results, requires knowledge of complex technologies—biomedical engineering, computer science, and materials science—that go far beyond traditional dental training to establish evidence-based protocols and develop new treatment options.
This interdisciplinary approach ultimately results in more comprehensive patient care, improved treatment outcomes, and innovations that keep advancing the field while addressing the complex relationship between oral health and overall human wellbeing.
This integration has transformed workflows into more comprehensive, efficient, and multidisciplinary approaches to therapy. A clear example of this current shift is the treatment of aesthetically compromised cases by combining periodontal, dental implant, and restorative rehabilitation.
This perio-restorative interface represents one of the most critical interdisciplinary relationships in modern dentistry. Although periodontal therapy often precedes restorative work to establish healthy tissue foundations, the final restorative plan also influences periodontal treatment decisions. Furthermore, the use of modern digital tools enables the integration of diagnosis, treatment planning, patient communication, and treatment execution at every stage of the care process.
With the use of digital technologies, the most suitable periodontal (biological) and prosthetic (restorative) strategies can be pre-assessed in a virtual environment and then integrated into an interdisciplinary comprehensive approach.
This virtual environment enables a thorough diagnosis that, along with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, enables the development of hyper-realistic virtual smile scenarios that provide highly personalized treatment plans to optimize restorative outcomes both aesthetically and functionally. These virtual simulations also enhance professional-patient communication and enable active patient involvement in treatment decisions, potentially increasing their satisfaction with the proposed treatments.
The EFP Perio Master Clinic 2026 in Baku will bring together the most expert practitioners in integrating periodontics, implant surgery, and restorative dentistry to manage complex cases. It will focus on integrating the deep knowledge of the biology of hard and soft tissues, surgical skills, digital tools management, modern dental materials, and the latest restorative solutions.
Perio Master Clinic is a triennial EFP conference designed specifically for dental clinicians. Taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan, Perio Master Clinic 2026 on the “Perio-Restorative Interplay” will offer participants the latest evidence-based clinical techniques in periodontology, implantology, and restorative dentistry. The scientific programme, featuring 29 speakers and moderators from 12 countries, emphasizes a multidisciplinary approach and will explore innovative products and techniques that provide predictable, aesthetic, and durable results for even the most complex cases.
Early bird registration—with a discount of up to 20%—is open until November 12.
Mariano Sanz is Professor and Chair of Periodontology at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and director of the ETEP (etiology and therapy of periodontal and peri-implant diseases) research group. He is also a professor at the University of Oslo in Norway and has received six honorary doctorate degrees from the universities of Gothenburg (Sweden), Coimbra (Portugal), San Sebastian (Santiago de Chile), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Athens (Greece), and the Medical University of Warsaw. He is a past president of the EFP, the Spanish Society of Periodontology and Osseointegration, and the European Federation of the IADR. He has published more than 500 scientific publications.
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