Nonsurgical treatment of patients with gingival and periodontal diseases can be undertaken by the general dental practitioner through the management of common and well-established risk and local predisposing factors and the use of treatments adjunctive to conventional methods of scaling and root surface instrumentation. The goals and objectives of these procedures and the importance of supportive periodontal care are fully examined in this book.

132 pp; 70 illus;

ISBN: 978-1-85097-074-3; 9781850970743

Contents
Chapter 1 Goals and Clinical Outcomes of Non-Surgical Treatment (Peter Heasman)
Chapter 2 Hygiene Phase Therapy (Peter Heasman)
Chapter 3 Instruments and Instrumentation (Pauline Robertson)
Chapter 4 Managing Systemic Risk Factors (Philip Preshaw)
Chapter 5 Managing Local Factors (Philip Preshaw)
Chapter 6 Adjunctive Treatments (Philip Preshaw)
Chapter 7 Supportive Periodontal Care (Peter Heasman)
Index

Preface
This text is the third of five books that aim to provide the general dental practitioner with an illustrated practical and contemporary guide to the management of patients with gingival and periodontal diseases. This book is entitled Successful Periodontal Therapy: A Non-Surgical Approach. Initially it presents the reader with recognised goals and objectives of non-surgical treatment. Subsequent chapters cover the clinical protocols and methods for achieving these goals: hygiene phase; scaling and root surface instrumentation; the instruments used for scaling and root surface debridement; managing common and well-established risk-factors; and the use of treatments that are considered to be adjunctive to conventional methods of scaling and root surface instrumentation. The final chapter reviews the importance of supportive periodontal care, which is highly relevant for general dental practitioners, for both those patients that they have treated in the primary care setting and those who may have received their non-surgical management by a specialist or in a hospital environment.

The Aim
It is hoped that having read this book on periodontal therapy the reader will be able to:
• understand the healing events that follow non-surgical treatment
• realise the limitations of non-surgical treatment
• have knowledge of the range of mechanical and chemical products that are available to improve personal plaque control
• be aware of the range of instruments that are available for removing tooth deposits
• understand the importance of identifying and managing systemic and local risk factors for periodontal diseases
• understand the importance of identifying and managing local anatomical and iatrogenic factors that may predispose to periodontal disease
• be aware of systemic and locally-delivered adjunctive treatments that are available and know how to reach informed decisions regarding the most appropriate product for any specific clinical situation
• understand the goals of supportive periodontal care and how they might be achieved
• appreciate the need for patient compliance and understand how poor patient compliance might be identified and improved.

Peter Heasman
Philip Preshaw
Pauline Robertson
Iain Chapple