Iain Chapple

Periodontal Research Group, Institute of Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham

Case report: non-surgical regeneration with adjunctive enamel matrix derivative

A 48-year-old female was referred by her general dental practitioner to the Birmingham Dental Hospital regarding concerns over progressive bone loss. Following clinical and radiographic assessment,...

Demystifying the S3 guidelines: what do they actually mean?

When guidelines are proposed for clinical care, there are various ways in which they can be developed, namely, an informal recommendation by a group of experts, a structured consensus, systematic...

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....

Juice powder concentrates: nutritional supplements in periodontology

Over the last decade, there has been an exponential increase in evidence relating nutritional status and supplementation to periodontal disease prevalence and management. However, there is a necessity...

Risk Assessment in Periodontal Disease

Risk assessment is the foundation stone for prevention, employing the latest evidence base to identify those patients who have a higher likelihood of developing a specific disease, then providing them...