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AAP treatment guidelines stress that periodontal health should be achieved in the least invasive and most cost-effective manner. This is often accomplished through non-surgical periodontal treatment, including scaling and root planing from deep periodontal pockets, followed by adjunctive therapy such as local delivery antimicrobials and host modulation. The field of periodontology is continually changing. Dentists must stay abreast of the latest researches in periodontal treatments in order to offer the most comprehensive therapy for patients. With the recent studies indicating a possible...

Dentistry has come a long way since 1900 when Willoughby Miller & William Hunter proclaimed that oral disease cause most systemic disease. A century later researchers are developing a scientifically based understanding of how in fact periodontitis may be a risk for certain systemic diseases. As these more recent observations are confirmed & clarified, dentistry will have a new responsibility in caring for patients who may develop or who have periodontitis. It is no longer just teeth that are at risk.