Practical Periodontics: Staging and Grading Made Simple and Nutritional Strategies for Inflammation Control
Timothy G. Donley DDS MSD
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Friday, October 17, 2025
The Terrace
ULM Library 7th Floor
Sponsored by the Northeast Louisiana Dental Association
This course will focus on two topics:
TOPIC 1: Staging and grading are great if you have plenty of time. This course will cover what to do if you don't have time. It doesn't have to be confusing. The world of periodontics can't seem to get out of its own way. Every classification system to date has been strong on complexity but weak on applicability...until now. In this course, you will master a chairside, evidence-based approach to identify exactly which patients and sites to treat. Unlike staging and grading, you will also learn a decision tree to make clinical treatment decisions. The emphasis is on making a complicated system much easier and more useful.
OBJECTIVES
- Learn what makes some patients "priority patients" and develop a chairside approach to identify and motivate them.
- Learn which sites need treatment (not all of them do!).
- Develop a chairside approach for determining how to treat.
- Understand the new goals of debridement and how to reach them consistently!
TOPIC 2: Reducing periodontal inflammation through nutrition: Macro nutritional recommendations that can make a difference. Maximally effective periodontal therapy is about much more than just cleaning teeth. Yes, bacteria initiate periodontal disease, but it's the host's inflammatory response that adversely affects oral and overall health. Now, ample evidence (which will be reviewed during this course) demonstrates the role that nutrition plays in affecting the host response.
OBJECTIVES
You will learn
- The role that inflammation plays in periodontal pathogenesis,
- The evidence for nutritional intervention to reduce periodontal inflammation,
- How to effectively reduce oxidative stress via alteration in
- Processed sugar intake,
- Antioxidant intake,
- Fat intake,
- Real-world strategies your patients can use to reduce their inflammatory burden, and
- Easy nutritional assessment tools that will work in a busy practice.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Timothy Donley DDS MSD is currently in the private practice of Periodontics and Implantology in Bowling Green, KY. Dr. Donley is a sought-after international speaker whose courses are always highly rated. His forte lies in taking the latest research and packaging it in a way that makes sense. He lectures and publishes frequently on topics of interest to clinical dentists and hygienists. His current emphasis is on developing effective protocols to co-educate medical and dental providers to improve patient outcomes.
MEALS AND REFRESHMENTS, ETC.
Continental breakfast, a coffee and water service, and lunch will be provided.
A temporary parking permit will be emailed to participants before the date of the course.
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