BACKGROUND Plasminogen deficiency is a rare autosomal recessive disease, which is associated with aggressive periodontitis and gingival enlargement. Previously described treatments of plasminogen deficiency associated periodontitis have shown limited success. This is the first case report indicating a successful therapy approach consisting of a non-surgical supra- and subgingival debridement in...

Introduction This study was performed to evaluate the clinical efficacy of using the Perio-Flow device (Electro Medical Systems, Nyon, Switzerland) adjunctively with mechanical instrumentation on periodontal parameters and halitosis. Materials and Methods Sixty patients who presented with a 4- to 6-mm probing pocket depth were recruited for the study. Patients were randomly assigned to scaling ...

Material & Methods: Patients diagnosed with early to moderate gingival overgrowth with stable allograft function were included in the study. These patients had been taking either cyclosporine or tacrolimus for more than 6 months. The patients were randomized equally into three groups. Two groups had received 500-mg azithromycin for 5-days given at baseline only. While the control group received...

Background: Receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa B ligand (RANKL) is one of the key cytokines in the induction of osteoclastogenesis both in vitro and in vivo.Several reports indicated the presence of sRANKL in gingival crevicular fluid of patients with periodontal diseases. Objective: To determine the presence of RANKL in peri-implant crevicular fluid samples of implants with peri-implan...

objective: the aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical efficacy of an herbal medicine, piascledine, on the treatment of chronic periodontitis. materials and methods: twenty-four patients with chronic periodontitis participated in this interventional case control investigation. after initial screening the subjects were divided into case and control groups. clinical measurements including ...

BACKGROUND Bleeding on probing (BOP) is an indicator of tissue inflammatory response to bacterial pathogens. Due to anatomical limitations, the entity and physical state of microbial aggregations located under the gingival margin and their relations to BOP have been hardly investigated till now. The recent introduction of the endoscopy has allowed clinicians to observe the subgingival environme...

Address correspondence to: Lydia M. López del Valle, DMD, MPH, School of Dental Medicine, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, P.O. Box 365067, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936. E-mail: [email protected] Objective: Children with type 1 diabetes have infrequently been the subjects of studies examining oral health status (caries and gingival diseases); in addition, no study of this ty...

OBJECTIVES To establish a normal range for the radiographic distance between cementoenamel junction and alveolar bone crest and the factors affecting distances for the early assessment of periodontal disease in Dravidian pediatric population. METHODS Fifty children aged 6 to 8 years were selected based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. Clinical and radiographic examination was performed. A...