Publications by authors named "David Kupietz"
Background: Different periodontal treatment methods (quadrant-wise debridement, scaling and root planing (Q-SRP), full-mouth scaling (FMS), full-mouth disinfection (FMD), and FMD with adjuvant erythritol air-polishing (FMDAP)) were applied in periodontitis patients (stage III/IV). The study objective (substudy of ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03509233) was to compare the impact of treatments on subgingival colonization.
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- The study aimed to compare the effectiveness of full-mouth scaling (FMS), full-mouth disinfection (FMD), and FMD with erythritol air-polishing (FMDAP) against quadrant-wise debridement (Q-SRP) in patients with advanced periodontitis.
- A total of 172 out of 190 patients were analyzed, showing significant improvement in clinical indicators like pocket probing depths and bleeding on probing for all treatment methods after 3 and 6 months.
- FMDAP outperformed Q-SRP in reducing pocket depths and achieving pocket closure in moderate to deep pockets, and full-mouth approaches were found to be more time-efficient compared to the quadrant-wise method.