Overview
This is an advanced level, intensive hands-on course for practitioners acquainted with current concepts of periodontal treatment. The first session covers advanced diagnosis: an update on the causes of periodontal disease, associated factors, indicators of disease activity, medically compromised patients, radiographic analysis and monitoring of response.

Instrumentation for initial therapy is the subject of a further session. A practical and methodical approach to scaling and root planing is discussed and demonstrated. Participants then progress through exercises on instrument maintenance and root preparation.

For treatment planning the participants separate into three groups, each with a member of Faculty, to discuss and analyse typical cases of periodontitis requiring therapy and restoration. Cases are then presented in an open forum for consideration of the proposed treatment. The second day of the course is devoted to surgical treatment utilising dissected animal jaws.

The participants gain experience in reverse bevel incision, curettage, suturing and dressing application. Therapy of osseous defects and furcation lesions is similarly presented. The course is wrapped up with an overview of surgical therapy followed by a panel discussion.

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