Are you sitting on the mother load? It turns out the secret to hitting your own personal practice revenue “mother load” is not a secret after all. Every single day, every single hour,Read More
Did you read the Nov OralHealth article on "Bridging the Gap", by Dr. Mark Lin, where it has found that "it takes 10-20 years for the new research to be reflected in everydayRead More
If the new Global AAP Periodontal Classification is moving away from solely a biofilm to an inflammation-based model in periodontal therapy, is your Medical Dental History comprehensive enough to capture all the predisposingRead More
The main "aha" moment at my last 2017 AAP Periodontal Classification Workshop was that "staging & grading" only pertains to periodontitis patients and not patients with an intact or reduced periodontium due toRead More
We are moving towards precision-based medicine and away from a solely biofilm-based model in treating periodontal disease. If you are still just treating biofilms, is it time you integrate the 2017 AAP PeriodontalRead More
Intact Periodontium with 4mm Pocket Depths + >10% BOP? Reduced Periodontium due to Acquired & Developmental Conditions with 4mm Pocket Depths + >10% BOP? Reduced Periodontium due to periodontitis with less than orRead More
Just completed my signature 3-Day, WOW, Weekday Optimization Workshop, last week with the new 2017 AAP incorporated. Intense to say the least with all the new material. The future of periodontal therapy isRead More
The new 2017 AAP classification’ most definitely will facilitate clinicians in making an accurate dental hygiene diagnosis & aid in prognosis. These were elements lacking in the 1999 AAP classification. To fully understandRead More
Best Practices! A term used all time in lectures, literature, reviews. “Treatments and interventions that result in consistent superior patient outcomes which are measurable, reproducible and based on the latest most current evidence-basedRead More
Periodontitis treatment outcomes are either “stable” in which modifying and predisposing factors are controlled or in “remission or control” in which modifying and predisposing factors are not fully controlled. Ideally, restoration to periodontalRead More