Undergraduate

The main purpose of these curricular guidelines is to serve as a guide to all bodies involved in dental education in what relates to Periodontology.

These guidelines have been elaborated from information collected by a questionnaire sent to all Department or Section Chairmen in Periodontology from all the European Dental Schools.
This document has been further discussed and approved by representatives from all European Periodontal Societies affiliated to the European Federation of Periodontology.
The questionnaire was answered by more than 30% of the Dental Schools and with these gathered data a consensus report was reached on what we believe should be the standards of periodontal undergraduate dental education in Europe.
We do not believe in strict curricular guidelines, but rather on the development of individual curricular initiatives, which will strengthen the idea of a European concept by virtue of our diversity.
However, having in mind the main goal of our Federation "the promotion of periodontal health in Europe ", we strongly believe that some minimum standards in all fields of dental education should be provided and enforced. With the publication of this report we hope educational planners and academicians will have a valuable tool for curricular development in this very important field of dentistry. I wish to express my gratitude to all EFP-members who worked the final edition of this report

Prof. Mariano Sanz

Periodontology should be taught in the undergraduate curriculum as an independent core subject, intimately coordinated with both basic science subjects as well as with the rest of dental clinical sciences.

The course of Periodontology should be taught both as a subject matter course and as clinical practice mostly in the form of comprehensive dental practice, in order to allow dental students to integrate their periodontal knowledge with the rest of the dental clinical sciences.

The subject matter course should consist on seminars and tutorials both in the form of lectures, group discussions and assigned individual work in order to cover most of the areas of modern periodontology.

The practical part of the course should include a through preclinical and clinical course on periodontal diagnosis, treatment planning and basic periodontal instrumentation, in order to allow the dental student to master completely basic periodontal therapy. The periodontal clinic should be as much as possible integrated as comprehensive dental therapy clinics.

1. Global Objectives
2. Specific Objectives
1. Seminars / tutorials
2. Patient treatment
3. Overview of time (hour) allocation for periodontology during the undergraduate dental curriculum
3. Evaluation