Purpose: Traditional approaches to mechanical debridement of the tooth surface to remove tooth accretions continue to be an integral part of periodontal therapy. The purpose of the present study was to test the effectiveness of mechanical non-surgical therapy in subjects with moderate to severe gingivitis and periodontitis. Methods: Ten subjects of moderate to severe gingivitis/periodontits wer...

Children and adolescents are subject to several periodontal diseases. Although there is a much lower prevalence of destructive periodontal diseases in children than in adults, children can develop severe forms of periodontitis. In some cases, this destructive disease is a manifestation of a known underlying systemic disease. In other young patients, the underlying cause for increased susceptibi...

Introduction. The radicular groove is a developmental groove which is usually found on the palatal or lateral aspects of the maxillary incisor teeth. The present case is a maxillary lateral incisor with a small second root and a deep radicular groove. The developmental groove caused a combined periodontal-endodontic lesion. Methods. Case was managed using a combined treatment procedure involvin...

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...

sites.1 But the traditionally practiced periodontal surgical techniques were designed for the treatment of generalized disease,2 which involves relatively long incision and extension into non-periodontally involved areas. These extensive tissue reflections could result in attachment loss3 and can lead to morbidities like thermal sensitivity, food impaction, and compromised esthetics.4 In recent...

Periodontists have been experimenting various modalities for regeneration in Aggressive periodontitis with varying degrees of success. Periodontal surgery along with platelet rich fibrin (PRF) has yielded promising results. The purpose of this clinical trial was to evaluate the surgical outcome of an autologous growth factor obtained by sequestering and concentrating platelets by gradient densi...

BACKGROUND In contrast to an expected increase in demand for periodontal services with aging of the population, it appears that referrals to periodontists are declining. OBJECTIVE To determine the extent to which general dentists in Nova Scotia, Canada, provide periodontal and surgical implant therapies and to determine the factors influencing a dentist's decision to provide treatment or refe...

Genetic variations observed in cytokines affect periodontitis susceptibility. The aim of this study was to investigate interleukin(IL)-6(-174) and IL-10(-597) gene polymorphisms in generalized aggressive periodontitis (GAgP) patients. Also, we aimed to evaluate the effects of IL-6 and IL-10 gene polymorphisms on the clinical outcomes of non-surgical periodontal therapy and cytokine levels in gi...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of MRI as a non-invasive method for the characterization of the inflammation and healing processes in periodontal tissues. METHODS For the in vitro study, 99 gingival samples were collected during periodontal surgical treatment and T1 relaxation time measurements were performed and correlated to the probing depth measurements recorded a...

UNLABELLED Periodontitis is a complex disease that has both oral and systemic consequences. The treatment of periodontitis may be both surgical and non-surgical but, in recent years, there has been a shift towards managing disease non-surgically in preference to surgery. Fundamental to all types of therapy is the patient's role in disease control, in the form of self-performed plaque control, a...