Risk Assessment for Peri-implantitis: Why is it Important? Nermin Tarhan, MS

Nermin Tarhan, MS 

Personalized medicine requires individual risk assessment as an integral part of the diagnostic, therapeutic, and prognostic processes. Despite categoric evaluation of most medical diseases/disorders, it is crucial to evaluate each patient individually.

Peri-implantitis is one of the important complications of dental implant treatments and in many cases management of peri-implantitis can be quite challenging for dental professionals. Thus, prevention of peri-implantitis is suggested to be of utmost importance.

Upon completion of this presentation, participants should be able to:
1) Describe personalized medicine, and individual risk assessment.
2) Explain the challenge and complexity of successful management of peri-implantitis.
3) Identify the essential elements of risk assessment for prevention of peri-implantitis.

Record on November 20th