NESP Communications

From the Desk of The President

It is with great honor and deep appreciation that I step into the role of President of the Northeastern Society of Periodontists. To serve this outstanding organization—so widely respected for its excellence, mentorship, and camaraderie—is both a privilege and a responsibility I proudly embrace. The NESP continues to be a cornerstone of our specialty, providing a space for education, connection, and professional growth.

I would like to first express my heartfelt gratitude to Dr. David Kratenstein, whose decades of visionary leadership laid the foundation for so much of what we value today. I am also sincerely thankful to Dr. Jay Fishbein, our current Executive Director, for his tireless commitment to excellence and his steady guidance in leading the Society into the future.

My sincere thanks go to our immediate past president, Dr. Stuart Segelnick, for his thoughtful leadership over the past year. I also want to recognize and thank Dr. Jessie Shi, who served as our 2025 Program Chair, for her incredible work organizing two standout scientific sessions this past year.

The spring 2025 meeting, “Solving the Atrophic Ridge Conundrum via Augmentation,” featured an impressive lineup of speakers: Dr. Craig Misch, Dr. Oded Bahat, and Dr. Leandro Chambrone, who shared critical insights into advanced surgical decision-making. In the fall, the November 14, 2025 meeting titled “Treatment Planning with or without Implants: Saving Teeth for the Long Term or Transitions” welcomed four globally respected experts—Drs. Hom-Lay Wang, Joseph Kan, Marc Nevins, and Ziv Mazor—to a packed audience of members old and new.

We were also proud to feature two emerging clinician members, Dr. Gazelle Jean Crasto and Dr. Brian Choi, who led dynamic small-table discussions. Their thoughtful contributions helped create a day filled with collaborative learning, idea exchange, and renewed inspiration. Of course, none of this would have been possible without the generous support of our vendors and sponsors, whose partnership is essential to our continued success.

As we look toward the future, I want to recognize the exciting momentum we’re seeing from a new generation of NESP members. Several recently recruited young clinicians have been instrumental in transforming the Society—bringing fresh energy, modern ideas, and helping us align with a profession that continues to evolve rapidly. From digital outreach to resident engagement, their involvement is helping shape the next chapter of the NESP. This Society will continue to thrive—as long as we evolve alongside it.

My goal as President is clear: to honor our traditions while embracing change. To sustain the value of the NESP, we need your active participation. This organization offers tremendous benefits: world-renowned speakers, top-tier continuing education, and rich professional networking—all at a remarkably reasonable cost. In the months ahead, we will continue reaching out to postgraduate programs to boost resident attendance and to our industry partners to secure consistent vendor participation.

Looking ahead, we are excited to present our upcoming Spring 2026 meeting, organized under the direction of Program Chair, Dr. Michael Breault. Titled “Evolving Paradigms in Periodontal Plastic Surgery,” the program will feature an impressive lineup of speakers including Dr. Gustavo Avila-Ortiz, Dr. Shayan Barootchi, and Dr. Todd Scheyer. This promises to be another day of cutting-edge content and engaging discussion, and I invite all members—new and returning—to mark your calendars.

Thank you again for the opportunity to serve. I look forward to building on our strong foundation and working with each of you to advance the mission of the NESP in meaningful, innovative, and collaborative ways.

Philip Kang, D.D.S.
President, Northeastern Society of Periodontists

 

From the Desk of The Executive Director

Jay S. Fishbein, D.M.D.

January 2026

The Northeastern Society of Periodontists is the premier regional periodontal organization in the United States. Each year we provide scientific sessions to our members as well as to students enrolled in postgraduate periodontal programs in the northeast region. We continue a tradition that began 65 years ago of providing world class speakers in settings that foster friendship and camaraderie.

Please mark your calendars for April 17, 2026. Our spring conference will focus on Evolving Paradigms in Periodontal Plastic Surgery. Our president, Dr. Philip Kang, and program chair, Dr. Michael Breault, have assembled a great lineup of speakers. We are looking forward to a high energy program.

Our fall 2024 meeting is titled Treating and Maintaining the Natural Dentition. Drs. Kang and Breault are working on a very exciting meeting with a great lineup of speakers. 

We are giving our members the opportunity to take advantage of early bird pricing for a year of membership. The annual dues for those who sign up by February 1, 2026 will be $650. Dues will increase to $710 after February 1. We have had to institute a price increase due to the high costs associated with running a world-class meeting in New York City. 

You may renew your membership online at nesp.clubexpress.com.  If you have forgotten your username or password, you can retrieve it on that page as well. In the upper right corner of the homepage, click member login. Then, you can either enter the information needed to login, or click forgot my username/password. The software will walk you through the steps to retrieve it. The site may also be used to update your bio, such as mailing address and email.

Please continue your membership and support of our organization. Spread this message to your colleagues, who may not be members and urge them to join the NESP for two full days of education and camaraderie. We thank you in advance for your participation In the NESP

Jay S. Fishbein, D.M.D.

Executive Director, NESP

A Note From the Editor,                                

Stuart Segelnick, DDS, MS

January 2026

Editor’s note:

The NESP Bulletin is your society’s way to keep you informed. In each issue we announce our upcoming featured world renowned speakers, so your excitement can carry through to joining us at our educational lecture presentations. With our timely editorials we strive to keep you updated on current topics of dentistry and periodontics.

“The NESP Bulletin encourages news from Advanced Education Programs in periodontics throughout the northeastern region. News may include faculty and student activities or achievements, research projects, departmental changes or any other related activities.” We especially welcome our post-graduate student members to contribute their views to the Bulletin as well as our steadfast members to let us know about your activities and accomplishments. If you have an editorial or article that you would like to share with your colleagues please send it to me, because the Bulletin is the best place to reach your colleagues and our members.

Photos of immediate past meetings are cherished; please email them to the bulletin so we can try and incorporate them into future editions or even place them on our new “Facebook” link (Northeastern Society of Periodontists on Facebook) The NESP is your society and if you have any ideas to make it better or would like to contribute to the Bulletin let us know. We want to hear from you and we want to help you become a more educated periodontist and practitioner. Join us!

Stuart Segelnick, DDS, MS.
Editor, NESP Bulletin

Periodontal Clinical Investigations

Periodontal Clinical Investigations (PCI) is the official publication of the Northeastern Society of Periodontists. The focus of the journal is generally on areas of interest to clinical periodontists. These include clinical studies, case reports, short reviews and guest editorials. Manuscripts are solicited from both NESP members and non-members and are subjected to peer review to determine their acceptability for publication. Information regarding submission of manuscripts follows.

A NESP ON-LINE Journal

As a member benefit, The Officers and Board of Directors of The NESP continue to provide the PCI Journal On-line through this website. This feature remains available only to Active Members. Those members who would like to submit articles for on-line publication, please follow the instructions below. We are proud to present this member benefit and look forward to even greater member participation and Web site utilization.

Instructions to Authors

Submission of manuscripts

Manuscripts should be sent to the Editors by e-mail: [email protected]; or by mail to Dr. Vincent Iacono, Department of Periodontics, School of Dental Medicine, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8703.

Printed submissions sent to the above address must be prepared as described below and accompanied by a standard CD-R containing an electronic copy of the manuscript. The CD-R should be labeled with the manuscript title, author(s) and specific version of the word processing program used. In lieu of printed manuscripts, electronic submissions are preferred and are to be done entirely in Microsoft Word (PC or MAC) and will be accepted at the above e-mail address.

It is not necessary to send hard copies unless there are figures of which you do not have electronic copies.

Submission of a manuscript is held to imply that the paper has not been published elsewhere and that, if accepted, it will not be published in any other journal in the same or similar form without the Editors written consent.

All submissions must be written in English. Authors must furnish translations of articles written in other languages.

All submissions will be subject to peer and editorial review.

Arrangement

Manuscripts should be in final form when submitted. They are to be double-spaced throughout, with one-inch margins. The first page must contain (1) title of paper; (2) running title (40 characters or less, preferably without abbreviations); (3) names, titles, and institutional affiliations of all authors; (4) mailing and e-mail address for correspondence and reprint requests, and also a telephone, fax number and e-mail address for the journals use.

Manuscripts must be original and may not have been submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere, with the exception of presentation at a scientific meeting and publication as an abstract. A signed statement to this effect is to be included with the submission of the manuscript. Research that involves human subjects must conform to the Declaration of Helsinki and the authors must indicate that appropriate informed consent was obtained.

The text should open with a brief abstract.

Authors are not bound to any particular form; however, subject matter should be arranged under suitable headings and sub-headings. The following are in most cases preferable and in this order: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements, References.

Manuscript Preparation

If manuscripts are submitted in hard copy format they must be submitted in quadruplicate (one original and three copies) and word processed, double-spaced on one side only of an A4 or 8.5 x 11 inch paper, with at least 25 millimeter (1 inch) margins on all four sides. Manuscripts generally should not exceed 10 pages (excluding references, tables, figure legends and figures) and should be limited to no more than six authors. Additional contributing authors will be listed in the acknowledgements. Abbreviations should be placed in parentheses after the first complete use of the term(s) to be abbreviated. Use generic names for drugs and for dental materials. Give trades names and manufacturers names and addresses in parentheses.

Acknowledgements and Conflict of Interest

Include acknowledgement of those individuals who contributed to the publication, source of financial support, and any financial relationships of any of the authors which may pose a perceived conflict of interest. If the work was supported by a grant, the name of the supporting organization and the grant number are to be stated.

Illustrations

Illustrations should be sent as attachments to the manuscript. Artwork should be un-mounted. Figure legends should be printed on a separate sheet. Photographs should be glossy prints, including only the area of interest. Since illustrations will usually be reduced in printing, authors should ensure that numbers and letters within illustrations are large enough to be legible after reduction (1.5-2 mm). All illustrations are to be numbered in order of their mention in the text.

Tables

Tables should be numbered, according to their order of mention in the text and each supplied with a title and typed on a separate sheet. Tables should be self-explanatory and supplement, not duplicate the text. All footnotes should immediately follow the table, and all abbreviations should be defined in the footnote.

References

References should be numbered in the order of their occurrence in the text, not alphabetically. Text references are indicated by bracketed numbers: as in other reports (1, 5, 6-10)

Davis et al (16) reported

The list of references at the end of the text should be double-spaced and arranged in order of their occurrence in the text. All authors should be listed unless there are more than six, when additional authors listed as et al. This should be followed by the title of the article, the name of the journal, the volume number, the first and last pages in full, and the year of publication.

Journal references are printed in the following form:

1. AUTHOR, AB, CO-AUTHOR, CO, CO-AUTHOR, EF, et al: Title of article, J Abbrev, vol: first page of article-last page of article, year of publication.

References to Books:

2.      AUTHOR, AB: Title of Book. Editor(s). Place of publication, Name of Publisher, (pages referred to), year of publication.

Please give full bibliographic information, when possible, in references to meetings and symposia.

General

Manuscripts are solicited from clinicians and researchers in areas of clinical and scientific interest to periodontists. The focus of the journal is mainly on material of interest to clinical periodontists.

Published manuscripts are not returned unless requested.

Editor: Dr. Vincent J. Iacono

Contact Us At:

Department of Periodontics
School of Dental Medicine
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, New York 11794-8703

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