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...

BACKGROUND Various laser systems are currently available for intra-oral use. Neodymium:Yttrium-Aluminium Garnet lasers(Nd:YAG) have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for soft tissue treatment in the oral cavity. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to test whether the use of a water-cooled Nd:YAG laser during a maintenance care programme as an adjunct to supragingival and s...

OBJECTIVE To determine periodontal health status among drug addicts in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. METHODS Drug addiction recovery patients were recruited from Al-Amal Rehabilitation Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia between October and December 2012. A questionnaire was used to determine socio-demographic data, oral hygiene measures, and previous drug abuse. Full periodontal cha...

Recent studies investigating protease-activated receptor type 2 (PAR-2) suggest an association between the receptor and periodontal inflammation. It is known that gingipain, a bacterial protease secreted by the important periodontopathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis can activate PAR-2. Previous studies by our group found that PAR-2 is overexpressed in the gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) of patien...

PURPOSE The present study was performed to compare the treatment outcomes of non-surgical periodontal treatment according to the distribution of attachment loss of a given patient. METHODS Forty-five patients with moderate to severe periodontitis were divided in two subgroups; Group I patients with teeth manifesting attachment loss of ≥6 mm at one or more sites on the buccal/labial aspect whi...

background: recently, there has been interest in non‑mammalian collagen sources such as fish collagen in the development of biomatrices and scaffolds for periodontal regeneration. in the present study, a novel collagen barrier membrane of fish origin was assessed in the treatment ofperiodontal intra‑bony defects. materials and methods: ten systemically healthy chronic periodontitis patients hav...

objective:  to assess whether non-surgical periodontal treatment is associated with changes in serological markers of systemic inflammation. materials and methods: thirty-five systemically healthy subjects with severe generalized periodontitis meeting the inclusion criteria participated in a four-month single blind interventional trial of which thirty-two completed the study. periodontal parame...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO2) as an adjunct to scaling and root planing (SRP) in the treatment of severe cases of chronic periodontitis. MATERIALS AND METHODS In 20 patients diagnosed with severe generalized chronic periodontitis (pockets>7mm) with bleeding on probing, SRP was rendered in all pockets. Additionally, five consecutive hyperbaric sessions w...

Repeated measurements of pocket depth (PD), probing attachment level (PAL) and bleeding on probing (BoP) are among the most important diagnostic means for evaluating the status of periodontal health (Listgarten, 1980; Lang et al, 1991; Hefti, 1997). Ideally a blunted probe is gently inserted into the gingival sulcus until the probe tip reaches the most apical extension of the dentogingival epit...

AIM To compare the early bacterial colonization and soft tissue health of mucosa adjacent to zirconia (ZrO(2)) and titanium (Ti) abutment surfaces in vivo. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty edentulous subjects received two endosseous mandibular implants. The implants were fitted with either a ZrO(2) or a Ti abutment (non-submerged implant placement, within-subject comparison, left-right randomizat...