Dental CE Course: NEW APPROACHES FOR ANTIMICROBIAL TREATMENT OF PERIODONTAL DISEASE

SYNOPSIS:


The recognition over the past three decades of microbial specificity in periodontitis has afforded dental practitioners the ability to prevent and treat the disease with a variety of antimicrobial drugs. These include systemic antibiotics, topical antibiotics and topical antiseptics. Systemic antibiotic therapy can be essential in eliminating pathogenic bacteria that invade gingival tissue and in helping control periodontal pathogens residing in various domains of the mouth from where they may translocate to periodontal sites. Frequently used periodontal combination antibiotic therapies are metronidazole-amoxicillin (250-375mg of each/three times daily/8 days) as well as metronidazole-ciprofloxacin (500 mg of each/twice daily/8days). Microbiological analysis helps determine the optimal antibiotic therapy and the effectiveness of treatment. Topical antibiotics that are commercially available as controlled release devices suffer from several potential problems, including insufficient spectrum of antimicrobial activity in some periodontal polymicrobial infections; risks of producing an antibiotic resistant microbiota; and high acquisition costs. In this course, Dr. Slots presents a periodontal treatment protocol that includes a battery of professionally and patient-administered antimicrobial agents. These chemotherapeutics can provide effective, safe, practical, and affordable means of controlling subgingival colonization of periodontal pathogens and various types of periodontal disease. Treatment protocols and cases will be presented.

The course will present data from clinical scientific studies and from own clinical case reports on antimicrobial periodontal therapy. In a clinical demonstration, the course participants will experience, in their own mouth, an instantaneous benefit of effective antimicrobial therapy.


TOPICS TO BE COVERED:


The type of periodontal patients who should be treated with adjunctive antimicrobial therapy

Safe and effective antimicrobial therapies and how to select the most optimal antibiotic and antiseptic therapy for individual patients

Effective and rational recall programs for periodontitis patients

Super-effective, long-lasting and inexpensive means of combating bad breath and some types of tooth sensitivity (this part of the course is extremely valuable and the information is not being presented in other CE courses in the USA)