Jay Parmar

Specialty Registrar in Periodontology, Guy's Hospital, London

Step 3 for the treatment of periodontal diseases: surgical regeneration of the periodontium

Regenerative periodontology requires an understanding of the biological principles of wound healing to enable the clinician to guide or manipulate the process clinically to attain optimal outcomes....

Vitamin D and periodontitis: shedding the light

Vitamin D2 (ergocalciferol) and vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) are the two major forms of vitamin D – a secosteroid.9 In this article, the term vitamin D will refer to both forms..