Peri-Implantitis

Professor Ioannis K. Karoussis graduated from the Dental School of Athens, Greece, where he also achieved his Master’s degree in Oral Biology. He specialized in Periodontology and Implantology at the Universities of Athens, Greece and Bern, Switzerland, where he also completed his doctoral thesis. He has served as coordinator of the Postgraduate clinic of Periodontology at the University of Athens, as Editor of the Journal Odontostomatological Progress and President of the Hellenic Society for Odontostomatological Research. His private practice in Athens specializes in periodontics and implant dentistry. He has received awards for his research on peri-implantitis and has authored more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as four textbooks in the Greek language.

Professor Niklaus P. Lang is the author of more than 730 publications. He holds four honorary doctorates and honorary membership of 20 national and international associations. In 1968, he was awarded the Swiss Dental Association’s renowned Prix Louis Metzger, and in 1992, he received the IADR’s Basic Science in Periodontal Disease Award. He is a past president of the ITI and the Swiss Society for Periodontology (SSP) and was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Clinical Oral Implants Research until 2016. He is active in clinical research related to implant dentistry, periodontology, etiology and pathogenesis of peri-implant infections, risk evaluation, wound healing, and oral microbiology. From 2008 to 2012, he built up the curriculum in implant dentistry at the University of Hong Kong after having headed the Department of Periodontology and Fixed Prosthodontics at the University of Bern, Switzerland from 1978 to 2008.

Contents
Chapter 01. Anatomy of Periodontal and Peri-Implant Tissues
Chapter 02. Peri-Implant Tissue Healing after Implant Placement
Chapter 03. Classification of Peri-Implant Diseases
Chapter 04. Etiologic and Risk Factors of Peri-Implant Diseases
Chapter 05. Epidemiology of Peri-Implant Diseases
Chapter 06. Success and Survival of Implants
Chapter 07. Diagnosis of Peri-Implant Disease
Chapter 08. Treatment of Peri-Implant Diseases: Cumulative Interceptive Supportive Therapy
Chapter 09. Cause-Related Therapy (Infection Control)
Chapter 10. Classification of Peri-Implant Bony Defects
Chapter 11. Corrective Phase of Therapy: Surgical Therapy
Chapter 12. Corrective Phase of Therapy: Regenerative Techniques
Chapter 13. Peri-Implant Plastic Surgery
Chapter 14. Effectiveness of Peri-Implant Therapy
Chapter 15. Explantation
Chapter 16. Maintenance Care in Implant Patients