The purpose of the present study was to assess in a clinical trial over 5 years the results following 4 different modalities of periodontal therapy (pocket elimination or reduction surgery, modified Widman flap surgery, subgingival curettage, and scaling and rool planing). 90 patients were treated. The treatment methods were applied on a random basis to each of the 4 quadrants of the dentition....

background: this study was performed to evaluate and compare the clinical and antimicrobial efficacy of subgingival irrigation with tetracycline and povidone‑iodine as an adjunct to nonsurgical periodontal therapy. materials and methods: twenty subjects with chronic moderate periodontitis were recruited in this split‑mouth study with probing pocket depth of >3 and ≤5 mm and clinical attachment ...

background and aim. the use of certain lasers has been proposed as an adjunctive method in periodontal pocket therapies. the objective of this study was to investigate the effects of nd:yag laser on the clinical periodontal parameters following scaling and root planing (srp) in comparison to spr alone. materials and methods. six adults with moderate to severe chronic periodontitis, each with at...

background and aims. previous researches, conducted mostly on extracted teeth, have shown that efficacy of calculus removal decreases with increasing pocket depth, but there is still a lack of clinical studies concerning the correlation be-tween residual calculus and varying pocket depths. the objective of the present clinical study was to assess the efficiency of mechanical tooth depuration by...

The purpose of this randomized controlled clinical study was to compare the survival of a one-piece anodically oxidized surface implant when placed with a flapless or flap protocol. Bone loss measurements on radiographs and changes in clinical probing depths 1 year post-definitive restoration placement were recorded and compared. Fifty-two of 60 patients (implants) remained in the study at the ...

Background: Receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa B ligand (RANKL) is one of the key cytokines in the induction of osteoclastogenesis both in vitro and in vivo.Several reports indicated the presence of sRANKL in gingival crevicular fluid of patients with periodontal diseases. Objective: To determine the presence of RANKL in peri-implant crevicular fluid samples of implants with peri-implan...

Vertical root fracture(VRF) is one of the common reasons for extraction of endodontically treated teeth. Though many options of saving such teeth were available, they were not of much success. Therefore the objective of this article is to discuss one such case. A 50 year old male patient reported with Vertical root fracture and 15 mm of periodontal probing depth in the distal aspect of 14. Radi...

Connective tissue is an autogenous tissue which has shown successful results as a barrier due to its mesanchymal cells with osteogenic capacity. In this case the defect around the dental implant was treated simultaneously with demineralized freezed dried bone and connective tissue as a membrane. Re-entry was done to evaluate the site in 6 months. Restoration was completely functional in the one...

Pocket probing depth was correlated with the amount of salivary sialic acid in pilocarpine-stimulated saliva in ODU plaque-susceptible rats (ODUS/Odu) (r = 0.657, P < 0.01), but not with the content of serum sialic acid. There was no difference in the amount of serum sialic acid content between ODUS/Odu and plaque-resistant rats. These results suggest that the amount of sialic acid in the saliv...