BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The primary goal of periodontal therapy is to restore the tooth supporting tissues lost due to periodontal disease. The aim of the present study was to compare the efficacy of combination of GTR membrane and alloplastc bone graft with open flap debridement (OFD) in treatment of periodontal intrabony defects. METHODS Twenty paired intrabony defects were surgically tre...

It has been very nicely quoted by Ambroise Paré that ‘’There are five duties of surgery: to remove what is superfluous, restore dislocated, separate grown together, reunite divided, and redress the defects nature.1 pare in year 1537 gave rise a revolution surgical techniques medical field. Defining surgery at 21st century only possible his constant dedication hard work. Surgery defined as act a...

Introduction: Most periodontal treatments aim to reduce probing depths and maintaining or improving attachment. One of these techniques for treatment of intrabony defects is guided tissue regeneration (GTR). The aim of this study was to compare one-wall intrabony defects treatment with GTR and flap debridement alone. Methods: Eight patients aged 32-43 years participated in this randomized contr...

AIM To compare two treatment strategies regarding the effect of orthodontic treatment on periodontal status in patients with plaque-induced periodontitis. SUBJECTS AND METHODS This was a randomized clinical trial. Fifty periodontal patients were randomly assigned to the test or control groups according to periodontal treatment timing. All patients received supra- and subgingival debridement f...

AIM The aim of this controlled, parallel design clinical study was to compare the healing of intrabony periodontal defects following treatment with access flap surgery with and without debridement with an Er:YAG laser. METHODS Twenty-three patients each of whom exhibited one deep intrabony defect were randomly treated with either access flap surgery followed by root surface and defect debride...

In the treatment of intracanal and periodontal infections, the local application of antibiotics and other therapeutic agents in the root canal or in periodontal pockets may be a promising approach to achieve sustained/controlled drug release, high antimicrobial activity and low systemic side effects. The conventional method for the elimination of subgingival microbial infection includes mechani...

INTRODUCTION Periodontal abscess is the third most frequent dental emergency, representing 7–14% of all the dental emergencies. Numerous aetiologies have been implicated: exacerbations of the existing disease, post-therapy abscesses, the impaction of foreign objects, the factors altering root morphology, etc. The diagnosis is done by the analysis of the signs and symptoms and by the usage of su...

The principal objective of periodontal therapy is the conservative elimination of soft and hard bacterial deposits on the root surface and to prevent recolonization of periodontal pockets by pathogenetic bacteria (Cobb, 1996; Van der Weijden et al, 2002). The rationale for the complete elimination of calcified hard deposits is based of the etiology of chronic destructive periodontal diseases. T...

The goal of regenerative periodontal therapy is the reconstitution of the lost periodontal structures (i.e. the new formation of root cementum, periodontal ligament and alveolar bone). Results from basic research have pointed to the important role of the enamel matrix protein derivative (EMD) in the periodontal wound healing. Histological results from animal and human studies have shown that tr...

Introduction Deposits of dental calculus when present either above the gingival margin or within periodontal pockets retain pathogenic microorganisms and their products, and have been linked to gingivitis and periodontitis.1,2 To ensure that clinicians are able to reliably detect calculus deposits, a range of special devices have been developed to augment traditional examination methods which r...