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Scaling and Root Planing Remain Key to Successful Periodontal Therapy

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High-quality instrumentation, effective self-care, appropriate reevaluations, and additional therapy are key to a successful periodontal treatment regimen.

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
After reading this course, the participant should be able to:

  1. Explain the roles of subgingival calculus and biofilm in persistent periodontal inflammation.
  2. Discuss limitations to traditional blind scaling and root planing (SRP).
  3. Identify determination criteria and approaches to therapy for sites that fail to adequately respond to traditional blind SRP.

This course was issued in September 2021 and expires September 2024. The authors have no commercial conflicts of interest to disclose. This 2 credit hour self-study activity is electronically mediated.


Belmont Business Media is an ADA CERP-recognized provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at ada.org/cerp. Belmont Business Media Nationally Approved PACE Program Provider for FAGD/MAGD credit. Approval does not imply acceptance by any regulatory authority or AGD endorsement. July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023. Provider ID 317924
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Michael P. Rethman, DDS, MS, is a periodontist and biomedical scientist. An adjunct associate professor at the University of Maryland and adjunct assistant professor at The Ohio State University, he sits on Decisions in Dentistry’s Editorial Advisory Board.


Charles M. Cobb, DDS, MS, PhD, is a professor emeritus in the Department of Periodontics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Dentistry. A diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology, Cobb is retired after 15 years in private practice and 40 years as an academic.


John S. Sottosanti, DDS, has had a private practice limited to periodontics and implantology for more than 30 years in La Jolla, California. A former associate professor at the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry at the University of Southern California, Sottosanti is a fellow of the American College of Dentistry and Pierre Fauchard Academy


Lee N Sheldon, DMD, has provided comprehensive implant, periodontic, and full-mouth rehabilitation dental services for more than 30 years in his private practice in Melbourne, Florida.


Stephen K. Harrel, DDS, is an adjunct professor in the Department of Periodontics at Texas A&M University College of Dentistry. A diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology, he serves on Decisions in Dentistry’s Editorial Advisory Board. Harrel can be reached at [email protected].


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