Maintaining healthy gums through preventive strategies helps avoid advanced periodontal disease. This book focuses on preventive periodontics, covering plaque control, scaling, root planing, and maintenance programs. It highlights risk factor identification, patient motivation, and supportive periodontal therapy. The content also includes professional prophylaxis techniques and long-term monitoring. Designed for practitioners and students, it underscores the importance of early and ongoing periodontal care.
Maritza Delgado is a seasoned clinician and academic in periodontology with a focus on preventive approaches to periodontal care. She is known for her work on early diagnosis of periodontal disease, non-surgical interventions, and patient education strategies. Her contributions include editing handbooks on community periodontal care and chairside plaque control measures. She leads workshops on periodontal risk assessment and motivates integration of prevention into dental hygiene curricula.