Periodontal medicine: a new paradigm.

The antimicrobial treatment of periodontal disease: changing the treatment paradigm.

Over the last 100 years, methods of surgical periodontal treatment have enjoyed a history of success in improving oral health. The paradigm of care is based on the "non-specific plaque hypothesis"--that is, the overgrowth of bacterial plaques cause periodontal disease, and the suppression of this overgrowth reduces disease risk. The central feature of this approach to care is the removal of inf...

A New Paradigm in Biology – The Effect of Localization of a Protein on its Anti-genicity

Periodontal tissue engineering: A new paradigm for periodontal regeneration

Regenerative treatment of periodontal defects with an agent, or procedure, requires that each functional stage of reconstruction be grounded in a biologically directed process. With this paradigm, we contended the way of periodontal regeneration through the application of current knowledge in the fields of molecular and cell biology, developmental biology and tissue engineering principles as ap...

Ozone Therapy: A New Paradigm in Periodontics

The oral cavity appears as an open ecosystem, with a dynamic balance between the entrances of microorganisms, colonization modalities, and host defenses aimed to their removal. Gingival and Periodontal diseases represent a major concern both in dentistry and medicine. The oral biofilm formation and development, and the inside selection of specific microorganisms have been correlated with the mo...

Scientific revolution in dentistry

In his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn argued that a scientific revolution takes place as the result of an episode of noncumulative changes where one paradigm is replaced in whole or in part. Kuhn observed that the process of a scientific revolution begins with an existing paradigm, during which normal science is performed. Eventually, an increase in anomaly leads to a...