PERIODONTIST

Dr Wendy Gill graduated from UWA in 1994 and spent 9 years in general practice in Australia and the UK before completing her Masters Degree in Periodontology in 2006. Wendy obtained her Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons (Perio) in the same year and now maintains a specialist periodontal practice in Cottesloe. She is a previous president of the Australian Society of Periodontology

(WA), previous president of the Dental Study Group of WA and is a long term Fellow of the International Team for Implantology. She is also a long term Fellow of the Pierre Fauchard Academy, the Academy of Dentistry Internationale and the International College of Dentists.

Wendy has co-ordinated an ITI Study Club for over a decade and is a is a trainer for the Swiss Dental Academy.

She is currently the President of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Periodontists (ANZAP).

Wendy maintains a Specialist Periodontal Practice in Cottesloe, Perth WA and works as a Consultant Periodontist at Perth Children’s Hospital.

In 2024, Wendy started her own hands on training company to help general dentists and their auxillaries manage periodontal disease.

She lectures and runs hands-on training courses locally, nationally and internationally on periodontal and dental implant topics. Wendy has a passion for helping the profession manage periodontal and periimplant diseases and changing the narrative.

Managing Periodontal and Peri Implant diseases involves a high level of patient engagement.

It can be complex to communicate the multifactorial nature of disease and the long term management needs. I often hear patients have been alienated not by treatment, but by words.

This presentation will give the audience the framework and the energy to 'bridge the way forward' in patient communication.