The department of Periodontics of Saveetha dental college had organized a webinar on “Webinar on Diabetes and Periodontitis- unwinding the linking mechanisms on 25th June 2020. The speaker Dr. Thomas Kocher currently heads the periodontics unit at the Dental School of Greifswald in north-eastern Germany and was also a part of the work group who framed the classification at the World Workshop for the Classification of Periodontal Diseases and Conditions in 2017. The webinar discussed the recent mechanisms and molecular pathway linking diabetes mellitus and periodontal disease. The webinar covered all the various therapeutic approaches in the prevention and management of periodontal disease. The webinar was followed by a short interactive question session on the topic.
