Ortho-Perio Risk Assessment and timing flowchart for lingual orthodontics in an interdisciplinary adult ortho-perio patient: A case report of "Perio-Guided" Orthodontic treatment

The treatment of ortho-perio patients is a challenge for the interdisciplinary team. Not only are adult patients with overt perio pathology involved, but any ortho patient, even young ones, can be a perio patient and vice versa. Diagnosis and risk assessment of every ortho-perio patient is essential to establish a correct treatment plan, schedule and prognosis. Orthodontics becomes a "Perio-Guided" Orthodontic Treatment and Periodontics a "Ortho-Guided Periodontal Treatment".