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The EFP's work in education includes a set of curricular guidelines for undergraduate dental education, a three-year accredited programme for postgraduate education in periodontology, and some continuing education tools for reference and consultation of dental professionals all along their careers. Besides, this area is the home of the 'EFP Alumni' section.

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How do smoking and vaping affect periodontal health?

… How oral-health professionals can help in smoking cessation Smoker status is now part of the classification of periodontal diseases—you have to ask patients about it and assess it. Maybe 20 years ago,…

photo of a man smoking and a woman vaping

2017-cabezas3rd-efp-research-prize.pdf

…patients from the CPI 3-4 group were found to have almost 3 times higher ORs for HT. Medical records: Korean Classification of Disease 2588 PPD≥4 mm or CPI SBP≥140 mmHg score 3-4 ± BOP ≥30% or DBP ≥90 mmHg 102,330…

2013-1st-prize-13-o-laugisch.pdf

… University Hospital of Jena. The definition of aggressive and chronic periodontitis was based on the classification system of the ‘International Workshop for a Classification System of Periodontal diseases and…

How do diet and obesity affect periodontitis and the response to treatment?

… K, Morimoto K, Shizukuishi S. Determination of smoking and obesity as periodontitis risks using the classification and regression tree method. J Periodontol. 2005 Jun;76(6):923-8. doi:…

graphic illustrating periodontitis-obesity relationship

2019_1st_clinical_research_prize.pdf

… rough implant sur- Roughened surfaces were introduced to enhance the clinical face, based on the classification by Albrektsson and Wennerberg outcome of implant therapy by increasing osteoconduction and …

The ‘thrilling’ discovery of the Y4 leukotoxin and the finding of Aggregatibacter (Actinobacillus) actinomycetemcomitans

… and periodontosis (later to be known as juvenile periodontitis and then, under the current classification, localised aggressive periodontitis) were recognised as distinct inflammatory conditions of…

Bibliography

… disease. Periodontology 2000 61, 160-176. Armitage, G. C. (1999) Development of a classification system for periodontal diseases and conditions. Annals Of Periodontology 4, 1-6. …

The role of micronutrients in periodontal disease prevention and therapy

… that can modify the immuno-inflammatory response and has been included in the current (2018) classification of periodontal diseases agreed by the EFP and the American Academy of Periodontology. …

treating-perio-disease.pdf

… to the population studied, the means of periodontal assessment, and the periodontal-disease classification (Sanz & Kornman, 2013; Ide & Papapanou, 2013). This possible association, shown by the…

2025_2__Clinical_Research_prize__R_Bujaldon_.pdf

… Buduneli, et al. 2018a. “Periodontitis: Consensus Report of Workgroup 2 of the 2017 World Workshop on the Classification of Periodontal and Peri-Implant Diseases and Conditions.” Journal of Clinical Periodontology…