Learning Objectives: 

• Define implementation science and identify how this emerging discipline is focusingtreatment strategies
• Discuss precisionmedicine and the evidence-based interventions available to improveclinical outcomes
• Examine the learning health care system and its influence on health care deliverysystems
• Evaluate paradigm shifts in the provision of periodontics and the trends in inflammatorymanagement for the dental professional
• Review the results of optimal therapy in a non-invasive approach to treating periodontaldisease
• Examine case selection in integrating an early and precise approach to advancedperiodontics
• Discuss anti-inflammatory products for the adjunctive treatment of periodontitis

Despite our best efforts to study, treat and manage diseases of the periodontium, researchcontinues to indicate increasing prevalence oforalinflammatory conditions, unpack challengeswith our existing protocols and challenge the dental profession with paradigm shifts. The ‘goldstandard’ of periodontal disease management is pivoting aspatients are looking to non-invasiveapproaches to safely,efficientlyand definitivelytreat disease and subsequentlypromotehealth.

The ever-changing environment of health care delivery isnowfocusing on the convergence ofprecision medicine, implementation science and learning health care system studiestosynergistically improve clinical health outcomes.While our medical colleagues have adaptedthese paradigm shifts into avant-garde approaches to patient care, dentistry is now called uponto become part of this trailblazing movement.