The extensive list of EFP publications includes the sector-leading Journal of Clinical Periodontology, the research summary JCP Digest, the Perio Talks podcasts, and a range of articles that offer expert views on periodontal science and clinical practice.
Featured
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Categories:Education & Career, Podcast
Fit for the future: rethinking education in periodontology
David Herrera, chair of the European Workshop Committee, Mariano Sanz, co-chair of the Perio Workshop 2023, and ADEE past president Pål Barkvoll explore the consensus outcomes of Perio Workshop 2023 on education in periodontology.
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Categories:JCP Digest, Treatment, Article
Non-surgical retreatment or papilliary preservation flap surgery?
This randomised controlled trial compared the efficacy of non-surgical reinstrumentation (NSR) and papillary preservation flap (PPF) surgery at single-rooted teeth with residual pockets.
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Categories:Clinical & Translational Research, JCP Digest, Article
Decision-making on using systemic antibiotics to treat periodontitis
A retrospective analysis comparing the clinical effectiveness and the frequency of antibiotic usage between two different decision-making strategies in the management of periodontitis.
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Categories:Clinical & Translational Research, Treatment, Article
What happens after healing when keratinised and non-keratinised tissue are transpositioned?
EFP Graduate Research Prize 2023 co-winner Andrea Roccuzzo (University of Bern, Switzerland) explores healing after heterotopic mucosa transpositioning at dental implants and teeth.
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Categories:Clinical & Translational Research, Article
Adjacent teeth have no impact on marginal bone levels around implants
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.
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Categories:Clinical & Translational Research, JCP Digest, Article
Can we avoid surgery for peri-implantitis with systemic antibiotics?
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...
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Special publications
Perio classification
The current classification is based on the findings of the World Perio Workshop (2017) which updated the classification of all periodontal and peri-implant diseases and conditions. The EFP has published a series of resources to help oral-health professionals understand and implement the classification.
Clinical guidelines
The EFP has produced a set of S3-level clinical-practice guidelines to provide oral-healthcare professionals with precise therapeutic pathways based on individual patient diagnoses and recommend specific interventions to get the best possible results for patients with periodontitis and peri-implant diseases.
White papers
The EFP has commissioned two "white papers" from the Economist Intelligence Unit and Economist Impact on the socioeconomic impact of periodontitis and on addressing inequalities in oral health.
View Time to take gum disease seriously
View The burden of caries and periodontitis
Perio Focus green paper
The impact of the global burden of periodontal diseases on health, nutrition and wellbeing of mankind: a call for global action.
Responsible periodontology
The EFP is committed to a vision of responsible and sustainable periodontology. It has published a Sustainability Manifesto and a set of Sustainability Actions.
Campaigns
The EFP, in collaboration with its partners, has made a series of campaigns on issues related to oral health including the relationship between periodontal disease and caries, diabetes, heart disease, and pregnancy complications, as well as an outreach campaign with family doctors and a health-education campaign about lifestyle choices that affect oral health.
EFP partners
Oral Health Partners:
Exclusive Partner in Implantology:
Regenerative Solutions Partners:
International & European Association Awards
2021 Winner - European Association of the year
