The purpose of the randomized clinical trial was to test; (1) the influence of occlusal adjustment (OA) in association with periodontal therapy on attachment levels, pocket depth, and tooth mobility, (2) whether OA was of greater significance in non-surgically treated periodontal defects, and (3) whether initial tooth mobility or disease severity had an affect on post-treatment attachment level...

PURPOSE Obtaining an answer to the question whether autogenous bone in combination with PRP give a therapeutical effect in the form of periodontal ligament attachment regeneration. Defining the degree of elimination of a convenient environment for subgingival bacterial plaque by reduction of periodontal pocket depth and periodontitis. MATERIAL AND METHODS Twenty-six systematically healthy pat...

The periodontal pocket is colonized by bacteria that exist in the dental biofilm or plaque. Apical migration of the pocket epithelium deepens the periodontal pocket. This first step is followed by the resorption of the alveolar bone, which leads initially e to tooth mobility and subsequently to tooth loss. Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans, a gram-negative bacterium, localized in the period...

Scaling and root planing is one of the most fundamental and effective procedures in periodontal therapy. The purpose of this study was to investigate statistically whether clinical or microbiological parameters before treatment are related to changes in probing pocket depth (PD). Two kinds of numerical values represented changes in PD. One was pocket difference (A-B: A; PD before the treatment ...

BACKGROUND Inflammatory periodontal diseases are found in many dentate individuals, but therapists and researchers who assess disease activity have had to rely on external clinical signs and symptoms to ascertain the health of the subgingival periodontal tissues. However, by using an endoscope in the subgingival environment, the therapist can see the relationship of subgingival tooth-borne accr...

The addition of 5 microgram of clindamycin per ml to a modified Todd-Hewitt growth medium permitted the ready enumeration of Eikenella corrodens from deep periodontal lesions because it allowed differential growth amongst the periodontal pocket gram-negative microaerophilic-anaerobic flora, maximized the numbers of E. corrodens in such culture, and inhibited the growth of most of the other conf...

BACKGROUND Periodontitis is a disease that affects and destroys the tissues that support teeth. Tissue damage results from a prolonged inflammatory response to an ecological shift in the composition of subgingival biofilms. Three bacterial species that constitute the red complex group, Porphyromonas gingivalis, Tannerella forsythia, and Treponema denticola, are considered the main pathogens inv...

A number of ways have been investigated for administration of antibacterial agents in dealing of plaque-initiated periodontal disease. These include prolonged release intrapocket devices which are inserted at diseased sites. Intrapocket drug delivery system was designed which contain Doxycycline Hyclate an antibacterial agent. The formulations were so developed with an aim to reduce the dose of...