Handbook of Clinical Periodontology and Implantology 2026: Comprehensive Coverage of Diagnosis, Regeneration, & Surgical Reconstruction for Dental Residents

A patient sits in your chair with a failing molar, a furcation you can feel with the probe, and a decision that ends in a saved tooth or an empty socket — and it cannot wait for a second opinion. Extract a tooth you could have regenerated, place an implant into a collapsing socket, or miss the bleeding that was peri-implantitis, and you buy a complication no patient forgets. This handbook puts the Clinical Verdict System at your chairside — a disciplined way to name the deciding factor, commit to a defensible call, and lock the rule at every irreversible fork in periodontal and implant therapy. Inside this book: Decide tooth-versus-implant with conviction — run two clear tests, regenerative biology and restorability, instead of guessing. Stage and grade in minutes — work the 2017 World Workshop framework even when prior records are missing. Read the intrabony defect like a surgeon — match regeneration, resection, or biologics to defect walls and esthetics. Place implants where the restoration demands — let prosthetics and buccal bone drive position, and know when to delay and augment. Catch peri-implantitis before the implant moves — separate reversible mucositis from progressive bone loss, and know when to explant. Find the residual cement everyone missed — stop blaming the host for a preventable, iatrogenic lesion. Keep results for decades — set risk-based recall and treat compliance as the variable that decides everything. Connect the mouth to the whole patient — coordinate diabetes care and treat safely in pregnancy. Written for periodontists, oral and implant surgeons, general dentists, and the residents, fellows, hygienists, and dental students who manage these decisions every clinical day. Open it before your next hard case, and bring a clear head and a named reason to every decision you cannot take back.