Background: Cigarette smoking is a significant risk factor for periodontal disease. It also causes pigmentation of oral mucosa. The present study was aimed to assess the effects of smoking on lip and gingival pigmentation and periodontal status and the relationship between pigmentation and periodontal parameters. Methods: A total of 109 smokers and an equal number of non-smoker controls (mean a...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical findings and patient satisfaction on implant overdenture designed with Locator implant attachment or Locator bar attachment in mandibular edentulous patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS Implant survival rate, marginal bone loss, probing depth, peri-implant inflammation, bleeding, plaque, calculus, complications, and satisfaction were evalu...

BACKGROUND Several etiologic factors have been listed for pathologic migration of periodontally involved teeth based mainly on clinical observations with scarce scientific evidence. Present study was carried out to find out relationship of clinical attachment loss and gingival inflammation with pathologic tooth migration. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 37 patients having 50 pairs of migrate...

Colonization with Tannerella forsythensis may characterize the conversion of periodontally healthy sites into diseased sites. This three-year study describes the prevalence of T. forsythensis and its relationship to clinical loss of attachment (LOA) in a group of adolescents considered at risk of developing early chronic periodontitis. Adolescents with (LOA+) and without (LOA-) loss of attachme...

colza (canola) is a crop with high rate of grain loss during harvesting. at harvest, semi-dried grains of canola’s pods are either opened or dropped due to mechanical impacts. therefore, lots of grains drop before entering combine head. another obstacle to successful harvest of canola is that ripe grain's pods are twisted together. this results in heavy grain loss at dividers of combine pi...

the aim of the present study was to examine the periodontal condition of an adult population in three isolated regions in greece and to determine the association of periodontal disease with several demographic, behavioral and environmental factors.the study population consisted of 640 individuals, aged 20 to 69 years from three isolated regions. the following indices were assessed: pocket depth...

AIM The aim of the study was to examine the association between telomere erosion and periodontitis in a long-standing prospective cohort study of New Zealand adults. Specific hypotheses tested were as follows: (i) that exposure to periodontitis at ages 26 and 38 was associated with accelerated leucocyte telomere erosion and (ii) that accelerated leucocyte telomere erosion was associated with hi...

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...

This paper describes the prevalence of destructive periodontal disease, in two samples of New Mexico adults, examined in two separate studies 26 years apart, by analyzing the occurrence of advanced loss of periodontal attachment (7.0 or more mm) in relation to selected dental and social factors. The first group comprised 1976 dentate adults aged 17-46 yr who were examined in 1958-59. The second...