Explore how artificial intelligence (AI) can improve the accuracy and efficiency of periodontal disease classification and diagnosis. Despite recent advances in periodontal classification, methods for detecting bone loss and assessing attachment loss remain limited. Learn how AI can enhance these assessments and support more accurate diagnoses and improved patient care.

Examine foundational ultrasonic techniques using magnetostrictive and piezo technology, including proper adaptation and angulation. Compare the working mechanisms, features, advantages and limitations of both technologies to improve clinical outcomes and ensure proper power scaling. Apply these principles to advanced periodontal instrumentation, including furcation involvement and challenging anatomical access. Identify visual indicators for proper utilization, explore optimal water management and individual patient considerations and review maintenance of ultrasonic inserts and tips to support effective instrumentation and equipment performance.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to improve the accuracy and efficiency of periodontal disease classification and diagnosis, supporting better patient outcomes. Despite recent updates to the periodontal classification system, methods for detecting bone loss and assessing the severity of attachment apparatus loss have not significantly advanced. This course introduces clinicians to artificial intelligence and explores its role in periodontal assessment and diagnosis.

Examine foundational ultrasonic techniques using magnetostrictive and piezo technology, including proper adaptation and angulation. Compare the working mechanisms, features, advantages and limitations of both technologies to improve clinical outcomes and ensure proper power scaling. Apply these principles to advanced periodontal instrumentation, including furcation involvement and challenging anatomical access. Identify visual indicators for proper utilization, explore optimal water management and individual patient considerations and review maintenance of ultrasonic inserts and tips to support effective instrumentation and equipment performance.

Explore the dynamic nature of Clinical Attachment Level (CAL) and the biological risks associated with aggressive subgingival instrumentation. Attendees will review the unique structure of the junctional epithelium and its susceptibility to mechanical trauma, including the documented risk of iatrogenic attachment loss when scaling in shallow or stable sulci. Participants will learn to apply these fundamental biological principles to modern clinical decision-making.