The aim of the outreach campaign Perio & Family Doctors is to promote awareness of how dental and general medical practitioners can improve the healthcare they provide to their patients by taking into better account the synergies between periodontology and family medicine.

This campaign has evolved from the outcomes of the EFP’s focused workshop on periodontology and family doctors, which took place in July 2022 in Madrid. It was sponsored by Curasept and involved leading experts from both organisations. Experts worked in three subgroups to thoroughly examine the latest evidence for associations between periodontal diseases and major chronic systemic NCDs, including diabetes, respiratory diseases, and cardiovascular diseases (CVDs).

The translations of the campaign materials to languages other than English have been provided by Cavid Ahmedbeyli (Azerbaijani), Nicky Beukers (Dutch), Zeineb Hamdi (French), Corinna Bruckmann (German), Martina Audagna (Italian), Susana Noronha (Portuguese), and Eugenia Huerta (Spanish).

The EFP thanks Curasept for its unrestricted grant, that has made the Perio & Family Doctors campaign possible.