In recent years, clinical periodontology develops continually because of the improvement of understanding and of the blossom of new technology. Some concepts have been updated while novel strategies have emerged. In particular, given the limitations of 1999 classification of periodontal diseases, new classification for periodontal and peri-implant diseases and conditions was launched during the EuroPerio 9 conference in Amsterdam in June 2018. Therefore, the evidence-based clinical guidelines should also be updated to provide recommendations to treatment accordingly. Advances in Clinical Periodontology is a course mainly for postgraduates majoring in periodontics and related specialties. The course aims to strengthen postgraduates' cognition of the latest theories, improve their clinical techniques, and cultivate their thinking of multidisciplinary comprehensive diagnosis and treatment.

The teaching team is composed of a number of experts with rich clinical, teaching and scientific research experience. Overall，this course takes the representative clinical cases as the starting point, and systemically introduces the latest diagnosis and treatment techniques and related research progress in the field of periodontics. The course content refers to the national postgraduate planning textbook of Periodontology (Second Edition) and some classic and recent documents. The content of this course includes but not limited to: the close relationship between periodontal health and oral treatment success, the new 2018 classification scheme for periodontal and peri-implant diseases and conditions, risk and prognosis assessment of patients with periodontitis, minimally invasive periodontal treatment using lasers, treatment of endodontic-periodontal combined lesions, periodontal management of orthodontic treatment, some advanced periodontal surgeries, such as guided tissue regeneration, periodontal plastic surgery and application of intentional replantation in advanced periodontitis, and brief introduction of EFP S3 level clinical practice guideline for stage I-IV periodontitis.