Video: AAP Classification

Marianne Dryer: Hello, welcome to this presentation on the new AAP classification system, it was rolled out in 2018, and I've been presenting on this topic for about two years now, My name is Marianne Dryer, I'm very happy to present this to you. Uh, after presenting the uh, AAP classification updates for the past two years, my focus has become to try to align this new system within your practices certainly, but also with dental curriculums. So I'm going to give you the high notes, I'm gonna try to portray to you certainly what I got from it. I spoke with some of the workshop attendees that created this system, and um, just try to enjoy it, there is a lot of information we're going to put together in one hour, and um, I hope you do get a lot of information out of it. I'll provide my email address at the end if you want any copies or anything or um, further information.

So I would like to certainly thank Crest Oral-B for having uh, me do this for you, having me speak on this subject. I'm always honored to do anything for Procter and Gamble. They're a great company. Uh, and I'm honored to speak for them. So again, my name is Marianne Dryer and I am an educator. Uh, and I've also been a um, curriculum developer and a national and international speaker for uh, Dentsply Sirona. My heart and my passion is in uh, dental education. Uh, I thoroughly love it. And I'll tell you, this new AAP system is, is just fantastic. And it really provides super great communication tools. And it is just aligning into the curriculums very nicely because i- it truly gives the students a way to develop their understanding of perio, but perhaps more importantly, it allows them to explain to their patients and have a system to follow to do so. Um, I can't say enough about what the AAP and the EFP, the European Federation, um, has brought to the table with this new system. So I know a lot of you are out there saying, "I don't want to change, it's too much change." But make a decision after this hour, and you might have a little bit different feelings on it.