A number of periodontal changes have been associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, however our knowledge of the epidemiology, microbiology, host response and natural history of these conditions remains limited. Therefore, the aim of our study was the assessment of possible differences in periodontal status of HIV infected subjects when compared with healthy controls matched...

Recently the concept of regression depth has been introduced [1]. The deepest regression (DR) is a method for linear regression which is defined as the fit with the best depth relative to the data. In this paper we explain the properties of the DR and give some applications of deepest regression in analytical chemistry which involve regression through the origin, polynomial regression, the Mich...

OBJECTIVE Systemic antibiotics and locally applied antimicrobial agents have been suggested to enhance clinical parameters. Patients exhibiting aggressive periodontitis in particular benefit from adjunctive antibiotic therapy. The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the effect of local antibiotic therapy with metronidazole adjunctively to scaling and root planning (SRP) in the treatme...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to assess the intraobserver and interobserver reproducibility of measurement of amniotic fluid index (AFI) and single deepest vertical pool (SDVP), also known as the maximal vertical pocket. METHODS A total of 175 fetuses were evaluated. For each fetus, two observers acquired duplicate sets of AFI and SDVP. Measurement differences were expressed as actual an...

in this study 100 cases of advanced periodontitis were compared with a control group of 100 persons. the parameters were the depth of the periodontal pockets, radiographic images, presence of inflammatory cells and different types of anaerobic bacteria in the pockets. the depth of pocket was measured by a sterile probe and the presence of inflammatory cells was determined through sterile curett...

An algorithm and associated strategy for solving polynomial systems within the optimization framework is presented. The algorithm and strategy are named, respectively, the penetrating gradient algorithm and the deepest descent strategy. The most prominent feature of penetrating gradient algorithm, after which it was named, is its ability to “see and penetrate through” the obstacles in error spa...

The aim of the study was to compare and evaluate effect diode laser as an adjunct scaling root planing alone on clinical parameters Gingival Crevicular Fluid (GCF) interlukin-10 level in chronic periodontitis. Ten periodontitis patients were selected. As it a split mouth study, two sites with deepest pocket one each quadrant randomly assigned for (SRP) SRP+ treatment. Plaque index, gingival pro...