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August 16, 2025Dentistry JournalOpen Access

The 2018 Classification of Periodontitis: Challenges from Clinical Perspective

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MCMarek ChmielewskiAPAndrea PilloniACAlessandro Cuozzo

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Overview

Narrative review assesses diagnostic accuracy and examiner agreement in periodontitis classification, highlighting key challenges.

Key Points

  • Diagnostic accuracy and inter-examiner agreement varied significantly among general dentists and specialists, indicating a need for enhanced training.
  • With 459 clinical cases analyzed, findings showed that experience and implementation tools greatly improve diagnostic consistency among examiners.
  • Challenges included difficulties in staging periodontitis and reduced grading reliability without longitudinal data, impacting treatment planning.
  • The review suggests that further education and the incorporation of AI technologies could enhance the reliability of periodontitis diagnostics.

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Chmielewski et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c235fdb210217d64772c46https://doi.org/10.3390/dj13080361
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