PerioDash 2025 Participant Resources

Promote your team. Advocate for periodontics. Celebrate the dash.

Quick Facts

  • A virtual 5K run/walk organized by the AAP Foundation (11th year)
  • Takes place September 12 – October 10, 2025
  • Open to individuals, practices, and periodontal programs

Why join?

  • Connect with your community, colleagues, and patients
  • Raise awareness about periodontal and peri-implant diseases and the importance of treatment
  • Have fun as a team and show your pride in periodontics
Learn more about PerioDash 2025

Helpful Tools

Resources you can use to share about PerioDash

educational handout

share with patients, colleagues, and community members

download

talking points

use in patient discussions, newsletters, or outreach

download

social media toolkit

captions, hashtags, and a shareable graphic

download

Spotlight and Inspiration

See how others are making PerioDash their own.

Amplify Your Impact

Want to share your PerioDash story in your community? The Foundation will prepare and send a press release for you.

Here’s how it works:

  1. After your dash, send us your team name and captain, event date and location, a short quote, any special touches (raffle, awards, breakfast), photos, and local news contacts.
  2. We’ll finish the release and send it from the AAP Foundation.
  3. Local outlets often publish these directly, giving your team visibility while raising awareness for periodontal health.

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Stay Connected

Tag us: @AAPFoundation @periofoundation

Use hashtags: #PerioDash #AAPFoundation #TeamPerio

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We are Research

We fund research to keep periodontology at the cutting edge of scientific dentistry. Read more...

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We are Education

We ensure the future of periodontology by strengthening future generations. Read more...

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We are Visionary

The Visionary Society was launched in 2000 to encourage the gift of future assets. Read more...

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Past Award Winners Update

Congratulations to Fatemeh “Flora” Momen-Heravi, DDS, PhD, (2017 Educator Scholar, 2018 Dr. D. Walter Cohen Teaching Award Recipient) assistant professor of dental medicine at the Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, who was named the 2020 recipient of the American Association for Dental Research (AADR) Anne D. Haffajee Fellowship. The award provides early-career women researchers in the field of oral biology with financial support for training and research activities that will advance their academic careers. Read more here.

 
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