Clinical Implications of Systemic Effects of

Periodontal Diseases
31 August 2017 (Thursday), 6pm – 9pm, NDCS Auditorium, Level 8

In periodontal medicine, the association between periodontitis, diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular
disease (CVD) has been studied extensively. Periodontally-inflamed tissues open the possibility for oral
microorganisms to enter the circulation and induce systemic inflammation. Besides the possibility that
diabetes may contribute to the onset and/or progression of periodontitis, it is now accepted that a low
grade systemic inflammation contributes to metabolic dysregulation and atherogenesis. Several
pathways which try to explain the link between periodontitis and diabetes, and periodontitis and CVD
have been investigated but the biological mechanisms, clinical relevance and implications of these
interactions are still not fully understood. The aim of this presentation is to contribute to the current
understanding of the complex relationship between these three inflammatory disease states and how
the role of oral healthcare professionals in providing interventional periodontal care remains
invaluable not only for oral health but for general health as well.

6.00pm Registration + Dinner

7.00pm Overview of Periodontal-Systemic Mechanisms
Speaker: Professor Frank Abbas

7.25pm Periodontitis, Diabetes Mellitus and Cardiovascular Disease – A Complex Relationship

Speaker: Dr Chee Hoe Kit
7.55pm Break (Coffee/Tea)
8.10pm Translocation of Periodontal Bacteria and Focal Infection
Speaker: Professor Arie Jan van Winkelhoff
8.50pm Q&A
9.00pm End

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dental/OHT students.

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 Clinical Implications of Systemic Effects of
Periodontal Diseases
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Overview of Periodontal-Systemic Mechanisms

Prof. Frank Abbas is a founding member of the Clinic for Periodontology in Amsterdam
and maintains practice as periodontist in a multidisciplinary approach of oral
rehabilitation. At the Department of Periodontology of ACTA he acted as head of the
clinic and cofounder and coordinator of the MSc Programme in Periodontology. He is
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. His research focus is on
susceptibility to periodontal diseases, in particular the relationship oral microbiology
and clinical periodontology and also on regenerative and surgical techniques in
periodontal plastic surgery. Furthermore he is involved in research on the periodontal-
general health connection. He published in all major periodontal top journals and
lectures worldwide.

Translocation of Periodontal Bacteria & Focal Infection

Prof. AJ van Winkelhoff is trained in medical microbiology at the University of Utrecht,
NL and the University of Florida, USA. He has specialized in oral microbiology with
emphasis on the use of microbiology in diagnosis and treatment of periodontal and
peri-implant infections. He worked at the Academic Center for Dentistry Amsterdam
and chaired the Department of Oral Microbiology. Since 2008 he is professor in Medical
and Oral Microbiology at the University of Groningen, where he was also head of the
Laboratory for Clinical Oral Microbiology. His major research interest involves clinical
microbiology, application of antibiotics in the treatment of oral infections and the link
between general health and oral diseases.

Periodontitis, Diabetes Mellitus and Cardiovascular Disease –

A Complex Relationship
Dr Chee Hoe Kit is a full-time clinician with National Dental Centre Singapore (NDCS)
and Consultant in the Periodontics Unit of the Department of Restorative Dentistry. He
was also a Clinical Fellow in the Department of Periodontics, University of Washington
School of Dentistry, Seattle, USA in 2009-10. His current main research is on periodontal
health and its impact on diabetes mellitus. Dr Chee contributes regularly to CDE events
and conducts teaching for Periodontics Residents from the National University of
Singapore and student oral health therapists from the School of Health Sciences,
Nanyang Polytechnic. He has also been actively involved with the Society of
Periodontology Singapore Executive Committee from 2007-2016.

Please register by 30th August 2017

For enquiries, please contact Ms Roslinda (roslinda.sabani@ndcs.com.sg)