By Drs. Jacob Fitzgerald, Joel Epstein, Mark Donaldson, Karen Fung, Gordon Schwartz, Cameron Jones Classes of medications reported by patients (PDF) There are many reasons why we need to be aware of the medications that our patients are taking. We need to make sure that there are no adverse reactions to these medications with the treatments […]
Derived from the Chronic Orofacial Pain Workshop of the Network for Canadian Oral Health Research, IMHA, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Montreal, November 2013 Gilles Lavigne, DMD, PhD, FRCD, Professor, Faculté de médecine dentaire, Université de Montreal Mary Lynch, MD FRCPC,Professor Anesthesiology Psychiatry Pharmacology,Dalhousie University, To understand the misuse of prescription opioid analgesics (POA), it […]
This is the summary of the report issued by the Joint European Federation of Periodontology and the American Academy of Periodontology Workshop on Periodontitis and Systemic Diseases: Diabetes and periodontal diseases: consensus report of the Joint EFP/AAP Workshop on Periodontitis and Systemic Diseases (April 2013) Context Diabetes and periodontitis are complex chronic diseases with an established […]
This is the summary of the report issued by the Joint European Federation of Periodontology and the American Academy of Periodontology Workshop on Periodontitis and Systemic Diseases: Periodontitis and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: consensus report of the Joint EFP/AAP Workshop on Periodontitis and Systemic Diseases (April 2013) Context This consensus report is concerned with the association […]
This question was submitted by a general dentist: What are the latest thoughts on periodontal disease and the classification used for its diagnosis? Dr. Sayed Mirbod, representing the Canadian Academy of Periodontology (CAP), provided this initial quick response The benefit of a classification system is to provide a framework to study the etiology, progression and treatment […]
In a Special Issue (April 2013), the Journal of Clinical Periodontology presented a series of articles that explored the association between periodontitis and some systemic diseases. The following is a summary of the article: Periodontal systemic association: review of the evidence Context The review aims to critically appraise recent research on the associations between periodontal disease and […]
This summary is based on the article published in the International Dental Journal: Clinical efficacy of antibiotics in the treatment of peri-implantitis (August 2013) Context Various treatment regimes for Peri-implantitis (PI) have been proposed in the literature. As it is known that bacteria can transfer from periodontally involved teeth to an implant, and that the […]
This summary is based on the article published in the Journal of Periodontal Research: Effects of local simvastatin-alendronate conjugate in preventing periodontitis bone loss (October 2013) Context Local host-modulation therapy is an emerging approach to prevent disease progression in sites with moderate periodontitis. The combination of simvastatin and alendronate would be an intriguing host-modulatory strategy because […]