title: Failure of periodontal treatment.
abstract: Treatment failures appear to occur more frequently in periodontology than in other dental disciplines. Inappropriate patient selection, incomplete diagnostic procedures, errors in diagnosis or prognosis, treatment difficulties, unsupervised healing, and the absence of maintenance therapy may be causes of such failures. A regular recall program can largely prevent such failures.
authors.affiliation: University of Basel, Dental Institute, Switzerland.
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Rateitschak
mesh_terms: D003777:Dental Prophylaxis; D006801:Humans; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D018579:Patient Selection; D010510:Periodontal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D010517:Periodontics / Q000592:standards*; D017211:Treatment Failure