Kristi M. Soileau, DDS, MEd, maintains a private periodontal practice in New Orleans. She is also a parttime faculty member in the Department of Post-Graduate Periodontics at the Louisiana State University School of Dentistry in New Orleans. Soileau is a diplomat of the American Board of Periodontology and president of the Louisiana Society of Periodontists.
The use of nonsurgical periodontal therapy to treat chronic periodontitis is standard in oral health care, and new developments may improve its efficacy in the future.