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The European Federation of Periodontology (EFP) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting awareness of periodontal science – the science and clinical practice of periodontics and implant dentistry – and the importance of gum health. Its guiding vision is “Periodontal health for a better life.”
Founded in 1991, the EFP is a federation of 38 national periodontal societies and represents more than 16,000 periodontists, dentists, researchers, and oral-health professionals in Europe and around the world. It pursues evidence-based science in periodontal and oral health, promoting events and campaigns aimed at dental and medical professionals as well as the public.
The EFP organises EuroPerio, a triennial congress in periodontology and implant dentistry – the largest European conference on periodontology whose most recent edition (EuroPerio10) was attended by more than 7,000 people – as well as events for clinicians and researchers such as Perio Master Clinic, International Perio Master Clinic, and Perio Workshop. Together with its member societies, the EFP organizes the annual Gum Health Day on 12 May, an awareness-raising initiative that has brought key messages on gum health to millions of people across the world. It has also run public-health campaigns on the links between periodontal and general health.
The EFP’s Journal of Clinical Periodontology, published monthly, is a leading scientific publication and has among the highest impact factors of journals in dentistry, oral surgery, and medicine.[1][2] The federation also publishes a monthly research summary (JCP Digest), as well as the magazines Perio Insight and Perio Life.
The EFP plays an important role in education through its accredited programme for postgraduate education in periodontology and implant dentistry which is taught at 23 universities in 15 countries. It has also been campaigning, along with its member societies, for European Union recognition of periodontology as a speciality within dentistry.[3]
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