The 34th Annual Dr. Peter Fedi Periodontics Lecture: Peri-Implant Diseases: Communication Failures
Thursday, April 3
2 - 5 PM
3 CDE Credits – DDS, DH, DA, AUX
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Dental implants have already replaced missing teeth in at least 100 million people. In addition, 1.3-2 million implants are placed each year, with an annual growth rate of nearly 15%. Although implants are estimated to have a survival rate of 95%, more than one million implants fail every year due to peri-implantitis, a disease triggered by disruption of host-microbial homoeostasis. Our ability to prevent and treat peri-implantitis is hampered by a paucity of information on inter-microbial and host-microbiome interactions that underlie the disease. In this presentation, we harness the power of biology to provide insights into clinical disease progression and translate biological data into clinical applications.
Course Objectives:
1. Understand peri-implant mucositis as a pivotal event in disease progression.
2. Identify peri-implantitis as a source of implant failures.
3. Understand how to use biological principles to improve therapeutic outcomes.
PRESENTER:
Purnima Kumar, DDS, Ph.D.
Purnima Kumar, DDS, Ph.D., is the William and Mary K. Najjar Endowed Professor of Dentistry and chair of the Department of Periodontology and Oral Medicine at the University of Michigan. She received her dental degree from Annamalai University in India, and her master’s in Periodontology and Ph.D. in Molecular Microbiology from The Ohio State University. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology and a Fellow of the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) program, the International College of Dentists, the American College of Dentists, the Pierre Fouchard Académie and the American Association of Oral, Dental and Craniofacial Research.
Kumar is the principal investigator of the oral microbial ecology laboratory at the University of Michigan that is funded through the NIH, NCI and oral healthcare industry. She has authored more than 100 papers and book chapters and serves as the Associate editor of Periodontology 2000 and senior editor of Microbiome. She is an active researcher, clinician, teacher and administrator, has mentored several pre-dental, dental, master’s, doctoral and post-doctoral students and junior faculty colleagues and has served on several grant review panels for the NIH. She serves on the Continuing Education Oversight Committee and Budget Committee for the AAP and leads the AAP’s Taskforce for Oral-Medical Health Integration. She also serves on the board of directors of the Osteology Foundation and the American Academy of Periodontology Foundation. She is the chair of the Council of Scientific Affairs of the ADA and is their official spokesperson on e-cigarettes and vaping. She also serves on several taskforces for women in science, women in surgery and women in STEM and volunteers for groups that empower women locally and nationally.
