“Cookbook” Makes Periodontics Easy for All

For Professor and Clinical Director of Periodontology Dr. Serge Dibart, periodontal treatment can be as simple as following your favorite cookie recipe. And the sous chefs writing the recipes are all BUGSDM faculty.

In Practical Advanced Periodontal Surgery, Dibart’s second and latest book on the subject, he looks to the school’s periodontology, orthodontics, endodontics, prosthodontics, implantology, and oral pathology faculty to explain cutting-edge techniques in a step-by-step manner. It is the first all BUGSDM-faculty book on periodontology since the 1980s.

"We are fortunate to have such luminaries at Boston University," says Dibart of the faculty who contributed. He also thanks Dean Frankl for his support and for bringing together the faculty.

Clinical Research Center Director Dr. Thomas Van Dyke wrote the book’s forward and was responsible for research supporting the periodontally accelerated osteogenic orthodontics technique explained in the book.

The book presents an easy-to-understand approach to this and other hot topics such as oral lesion diagnosis, treatment of patients taking bisphosphonates, and implantology, an area many periodontists trained in the 1980s and before lacked in their educational programs.

“The book is for everyone–general dentists, specialists, specialty students, and DMD students," Dibart says. "It’s very accessible."

Dibart’s first book sold out in a couple months and he is hoping this one, due out in late November, will do the same. He is working on two future books, one of which will again feature all BUGSDM faculty.