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Session
I, Biological and Behavioral Risk Factors, was chaired by IAP
President Prof. Angela Pack (NZ) and featured three
presentations. Prof. Uros Skaleric (Slovenia) spoke on
“Periodontal wound size and host response” and Prof. Rutger
Persson (Switzerland) discussed “Periodontal risk factors.” Dr.
Patricia Curry, (Brazil) who substituted for the planned
speaker, Prof. Marjorie Jeffcoat (USA) who could not depart the
USA for Brazil due to weather-related airport closures in the
USA presented the Keynote Address entitled “Osteopenia and
Osteoporosis: Effects on periodontal therapy and implant
success.”
Following
a lunch and visits to the exhibits and poster presentations,
Session II, entitled “Controversies in Periodontics,” began
under the moderation of IAP Journal Editor Prof. Mark R. Patters
(USA). Prof. Isao Ishikawa (Japan) presented “Innovations in
lasers” and Prof. Magda Feres discussed “Control of periodontal
infections - clinical and microbiological evidence.” Following a
coffee break, Prof. Denis Kinane (USA) spoke on “Full mouth
disinfection”, while Prof. Roberto Lotufo presented a talk
entitled “Clinical application of local antimicrobials.” Prof.
Lotufo presented his paper in Portuguese, which caused the many
Brazilians in attendance to remove their headphones while the
remaining non-Portuguese speakers had to don their headphones to
listen to the simultaneous translation.
That
evening, the Local Organizing Committee sponsored an Opening
Cocktail “forró” at the swimming pool area of the Bahia Othon
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