Following the ADI’s extremely successful ‘Focus on Peri-implantitis’ meeting in 2010, which covered mostly the aetiology of peri-implant disease, ADI president Cemal Ucer felt an urgent need to invite an expert panel to debate and assess the best available evidence on monitoring, diagnosis and treatment of peri-implant disease. The aim of the meeting is to create and establish ‘best practice guidelines’ on how to monitor and treat peri-implant disease based on the expert panel’s conclusions.
The panel of speakers includesTord Berglungh (Sweden), Mariano Sanz (Spain), Nikos Donos (Eastman, London), the president of the British Society of Dental Hygienists and Therapists Sally Simpson, Nicola West (Bristol), Simon Wright (ADI director of education) and UK periodontologist Maria Retzepi.
Although the true prevalence of peri-implant disease is not known, literature suggests that peri-implant mucositis occurs in about 80 per cent of subjects (50 per cent of sites) restored with implants, and peri-implantitis in between 28 per cent and 56 per cent of subjects (12-40 per cent of sites) unless implants are maintained adequately. This means that there will be an increasing demand for the monitoring and treatment of this condition, with an increasing number of implants placed each year. Moreover, ADI’s recent survey of more than 200 experienced implantologists suggest that there is lack of consensus on how best to monitor or treat peri-implant disease during its various stages.
Cemal is particularly looking forward to the meeting because the ADI’s ‘best practice guidelines’ will be debated and approved by the expert panel in front of the audience before being publically issued at the end of the meeting. Cemal said “This will be a great opportunity to see some of Europe’s most distinguished periodontologists debating this issue”.