Samar Shaikh, BDS, MS, is an assistant professor at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in Boston and also maintains a part-time position in private practice. She is a diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology and a contributing author for the textbook Clinical Cases in Periodontics and the electronic version of Carranza’s Clinical Periodontology. She can be reached at samar.shaikh@tufts.edu.