Error: Subscribe to Dental Update to view, or purchase this article.
Article: Volume 46 Number 1 Page 8 - January 2019
Prev Article P8 Next Read article
Dent Update 2019; 46: 8-11
Guest Editorial: New Classification System for Periodontal and Peri-implant Diseases
Feedback: 0 comments, 0 ratings
Abstract: Since 1999, we have become used to the periodontal diseases classification system devised by Armitage.1 This defined periodontal diseases (but not, at that time, peri-implant diseases) into eight categories and recognized periodontitis in two forms, chronic and aggressive.
Author notes: Phil Ower, Periocourses Ltd