Watch the highly appreciated Clinical Symposium

Online

140 min

Prof Søren Jepsen, RDH Helen Minnery and Prof Anna Norhammar. Moderated by Prof Lars Rydén.

The heart of the matter

Exploring the relationship between cardiovascular disease and oral care

 

If you want to watch the clinical symposium again, or if you missed the live event, a videon on demand is now available. Please register at the link below.

Some behind the scenes of the event.

Overview

We proudly present this digital event, consisting of a tri-part lecture and discussion. Our multidisciplinary expert team will reflect on the past, present, and possible future of caring for patients with cardiovascular disease and periodontitis. The eminent Lars Rydén, professor of cardiology at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, will be our moderator.


This will not be your ordinary online webinar – we are happy to present a very interactive symposium; discussions intertwined with presentations and questions from the audience. You will, amongst other things, hear about guidelines and how the relationship between cardiovascular disease and periodontal disease impacts patient care and treatment outcome. With a growing ageing population and an increase in lifestyle diseases, the knowledge from this symposium will truly be of use for you in your daily clinical practice.

Our presenters

Søren Jepsen

University Professor and Department Chair, Germany

 

Søren is Chair of the Department of Periodontology, Operative and Preventive Dentistry at the University Medical Center Bonn, Germany. He served as President of the European Federation of Periodontology (EFP) from 2015-2016 and is a member of the EFP-Workshop Committee, which held a cardiology and periodontology consensus conference with the World Heart Federation and also developed S3-Level Clinical guidelines for the treatment of periodontitis. He has lectured and published extensively and has received numerous awards.

Helen Minnery

Dental Hygienist, United Kingdom

 

Helen qualified from Liverpool University Dental Hospital in September 1992. She also holds a BSc (Hons) in Dental Studies from the University of Lancashire. Helen works in a practice with a team approach for patient care, alongside periodontists, implantologists, and general dentists. Helen has been presenting over the past five years at various dental events and has during the pandemic held webinars for a wide audience. She also runs full-day courses on Dilemmas of Implants in Practice. Helen is the past President of the British Society of Dental Hygiene and Therapy.

Anna Norhammar

Professor of Cardiology, Sweden

 

Anna is professor of Cardiology at Karolinska Institutet and a senior physician at Capio S:t Görans hospital, Stockholm Sweden. She is clinically licensed in cardiology, clinical physiology, and internal medicine. Together with Professor Lars Rydén she has since the late 1990/millennium performed clinical research on diabetes, prediabetes and cardiovascular disease and found high proportion of undiscovered diabetes among patients with myocardial infarction when investigated with oral glucose tolerance test. During 2010-2014 she was part of the PAROKRANK-steering group and designed and performed a national case-control study investigating dental health in patients with myocardial infarction and their matched controls. The main results were published in Circulation 2016. On this meeting Anna Norhammar will present data from the PAROKRANK study on the association on periodontal disease and myocardial infarction and on the association between periodontal disease and undiscovered diabetes.

Moderator

Professor Lars Rydén

 

Lars is Senior Professor of Cardiology at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. He has published around 700 scientific papers and has supervised several doctoral students, including Anna Norhammar, one of our presenters. He has chaired numerous expert groups in collaboration with the European Society of Cardiology and European Commission. Prof. Rydén is a frequently invited lecturer in Sweden and abroad. In 2019 he received the Hellmut Mehnert award for outstanding contributions to the knowledge and understanding of diabetes.