title: Introducing a Chair-Side Novel Approach to Reach Evidence-based Periodontal Information in the Daily Periodontal Practice.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Evidence-based healthcare is not an easier approach to patient management, but should provide both clinicians and patients with greater confidence and trust in their mutual relationship. The intellectual embrace of evidence-based methods, coupled with clinical expertise and consideration of the patients individual uniqueness and requirements, is needed for all periodontal therapists if optimum care is the goal. One important element of evidence-based decision making in periodontology is the systematic review. Systematic reviews usually provide the periodontist with the highest level of evidence which should be taken into consideration when constructing any treatment plan in the dental clinic. However, reaching systematic reviews might be a time-consuming procedure that needs further personal skills.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this paper, a chair-side novel approach to facilitate the incorporation of systematic reviews into daily periodontal practice is presented. It is based on three simple tools, namely, a list of suitable periodontics-related key words, a data bank of all up-to-date published systematic reviews in periodontology, and hand-made paper sheets to match the key words with their related systematic review statements.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A primary validation of this method indicated the simplicity in learning and application.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Chair-side; Evidence-based medicine; Periodontology; Systematic review.
authors.affiliation: Department of Periodontology, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany. Email:  aousdannan@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Aous
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dannan