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This issue of the Journal of the International Academy of Periodontology marks a major change for the Journal. Since its inception in 1999, the Journal has been produced by FDI World Dental Press in Great Britain. However, FDI notified us at the end of 2010 that they were divesting themselves of World Dental Press. Therefore, in February of this year, we discontinued the arrangement with World Dental Press in the United Kingdom, and transferred the layout and printing of the Journal to Hasti...

A Chronological Classification of Periodontal Disease: A Review
A Chronological Classification of Periodontal Disease: A Review

The subject of classification may be considered to be dull by some people, even contentious by others, but it does afford us a means to an end. The evolution of the history allows us to see how our predecessors thought and how periodontal disease has extended itself as an important entity into many aspects of the medical field. A good classification system allows us to understand the complexity of the disease that we are attempting to treat. This is a subject that Drs. I Glickman, I Weinmann, B...

Chronic Periodontitis with Multiple Risk Factor Syndrome: A Case Report
Chronic Periodontitis with Multiple Risk Factor Syndrome: A Case Report

Objective: Multiple risk factor syndrome is a clustering of cardiovascular risk factors, such as diabetes, dyslipidemia, hypertension, and obesity associated epidemiologically with insulin resistance. This report describes the clinical course of a patient suffering from severe periodontitis with multiple risk factor syndrome, and discusses the association between periodontal infection and systemic health. Methods: The patient had a history of type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia, and hypertension...

Guided Tissue Regeneration: A Decision-Making Model
Guided Tissue Regeneration: A Decision-Making Model

Background: Guided tissue regeneration (GTR) has the potential to promote periodontal regeneration, which is one of the goals of periodontal surgery. While many successful reports of periodontal regeneration using barrier membranes exist in the literature, considerable heterogeneity of GTR outcomes is more typical of current reports. The reasons for this variability are numerous, but could be attributed to differences in surgical skills and case selection. There is a need for a current analysis...

Diode Laser Activated Indocyanine Green Selectively Kills Bacteria
Diode Laser Activated Indocyanine Green Selectively Kills Bacteria

Background and Objective: Commercially available photodynamic therapy for periodontal diseases utilizes methylene blue as a photosensitizer. Here we propose a novel photosensitizer dye, indocyanine green (ICG), because it can be readily activated by commercially available dental 810 nm diode lasers and has an established safety record as an intravascular agent in cardiac imaging and ophthalmologic photodynamic therapy. Therefore, we aim to characterize ICG uptake and killing of key periodontal...