Starter Pack
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Glossary, study checklist, and charting quick-reference in one bundle. Built to remove the first weeks of friction.
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Guided pathway
Perio Foundations Pathway
Six modules that walk you from the scope of the field through charting, evaluation, and the framing behind early treatment decisions.
Audience
Dental and hygiene students, plus early-career clinicians who want the fundamentals laid out in order.
Estimated time
6 short modules, about 2.5 hours total
At a glance
What you'll be working through.
A quick visual sweep of the six modules. Tap any tile to jump into it.
Robina Weermeijer / Unsplash Module 1
What Is Periodontology?
Kabiur Rahman Riyad / Unsplash Module 2
Gingivitis vs Periodontitis
Kelly Sikkema / Unsplash Module 3
Periodontal Charting Basics
William Warby / Unsplash Module 4
Clinical Attachment Loss
mockupbee / Unsplash Module 5
Periodontal Evaluation Basics
Bench Accounting / Unsplash Module 6
Treatment Foundations
Modules
The six steps, in order.
Each one builds on the one before. Skip around if you want, but the sequence exists for a reason.
- 1
What Is Periodontology?
What the field actually covers, and the system view that makes everything after it easier to follow.
Open module - 2
Gingivitis vs Periodontitis
Reversible inflammation versus attachment loss. The single distinction most early exam questions hinge on.
Open module - 3
Periodontal Charting Basics
The measurements that turn a mouth full of teeth into a chart you can reason from.
Open module - 4
Clinical Attachment Loss
Why CAL is the measurement that tells you about disease history, not just what you see today.
Open module - 5
Periodontal Evaluation Basics
The pieces of a full perio evaluation, and the question each piece is trying to answer.
Open module - 6
Treatment Foundations
How initial therapy, maintenance, and recession procedures fit into the picture once the fundamentals are in place.
Open module
Pair with
The references worth keeping open next to the modules.
Quick-reference tools that go well next to the pathway during a study block.
Cheat Sheet
Review charting basicsPeriodontal Charting Cheat Sheet
The measurements and notations on a chart, explained well enough that the chart starts reading like prose.
Checklist
Use the study checklistStudy Checklist
A short, repeatable review pass for the night before exams, clinic, or a pathway module.
Or, start sharper
Take the quiz first so you know what to focus on.
Eight minutes of self-assessment will tell you which modules to spend the most time on. The rest of the pathway becomes a lot easier to ration when you know that.