Periodontal Dressing as an Adjunct after Scaling and Root Planing--A Useful Preventive Tool?

Purpose: To determine the preventive effect of a periodontal dressing containing colophony, zinc oxide and magnesium oxide applied after scaling and root planing on clinical variables, subgingival bacteria and local immune response in patients with chronic periodontitis.

Materials And Methods: In this randomised prospective clinical study, 28 volunteers with generalised moderate chronic periodontitis were treated with full-mouth scaling in a split-mouth design. In the test quadrants, the periodontal dressing was applied during the first three days.

Microbiologic findings 1 year after partial- and full-mouth scaling in the treatment of moderate chronic periodontitis.

Objective: To investigate the impact on microbiologic variables of full-mouth scaling (FMS) and conventional scaling and root planing (cSRP) after 12 months.

Method And Materials: In a prospective randomized controlled clinical study, 37 volunteers with moderate chronic periodontitis were treated by FMS or by cSRP in two sessions at 4-week intervals. Clinical attachment level, probing depth, and bleeding on probing were recorded at baseline as well as at 6 and 12 months.

Clinical and microbiologic results 12 months after scaling and root planing with different irrigation solutions in patients with moderate chronic periodontitis: a pilot randomized trial.

Background: The aim of this study is to determine in a randomized trial the impact on treatment outcome after 12 months of different subgingival irrigation solutions during scaling and root planing (SRP).

Methods: Fifty-one adult volunteers with generalized chronic periodontitis were treated by full-mouth SRP using 0.9% sodium chloride, 0.

Gingival crevicular fluid levels of aspartate aminotransferase and alpha2-macroglobulin before and after topical application of metronidazole or scaling and root planing.

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the influence of topical metronidazole gel application and scaling and root planing on gingival crevicular fluid variables.

Method And Materials: In a split-mouth study, 39 volunteers with chronic periodontitis were treated by metronidazole gel or scaling and root planing. Clinical attachment level and probing depth were recorded, and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and total/transformed Alpha2-macroglobulin were determined in the gingival crevicular fluid at baseline, as well as after 3 and 6 months.

Nutritional intervention in patients with periodontal disease: clinical, immunological and microbiological variables during 12 months.

The role of nutrition in onset, progression and treatment of periodontitis has not been thoroughly evaluated. In the present prospective clinical study, we investigated the influence of a nutritional intervention on changes in clinical, microbiological and immunological periodontal variables during a period of 12 months in patients with the metabolic syndrome and chronic periodontitis. Twenty female subjects with the metabolic syndrome and mild to moderate chronic periodontitis participated in a guided nutritional intervention programme.

A clinical study evaluating the treatment of supra-alveolar-type defects with access flap surgery with and without an enamel matrix protein derivative: a pilot study.

Aim: There is evidence that regenerative treatment of intra-bony and mandibular class II furcation defects with access flap and an application of an enamel matrix protein derivative (EMD) can result in a clinical benefit compared with access flap alone. The aim of this pilot study was to check if the results of access flap surgery in suprabony defects are improved by additional application of EMD.

Material And Methods: Thirty-nine adult subjects with supra-alveolar-type defects were randomly assigned to a test (n=25) and a control group (n=14).

Clinical evaluation of partial- and full-mouth scaling in the treatment of chronic periodontitis.

Background: Full-mouth scaling (FMS) is claimed by some researchers to be superior to standard scaling and root planing (SRP). The aim of the present study was to evaluate clinical outcomes of two modalities of non-surgical periodontal therapy for patients with chronic periodontitis.

Methods: In a prospective, randomized, controlled clinical study, 37 subjects with chronic periodontitis were treated by SRP in two quadrants at 4-week intervals (N=20) or by FMS (N=17).

[Soluble leukocyte adhesion molecules in vegetarians of various ages].

Objectives: Upregulation of leukocyte adhesion molecules under atherogenic conditions is accompanied by the release of soluble forms of adhesion molecules into the bloodstream. Vegetarians have a favorable cardiovascular risk profile. The aim of the present study was to assess the levels of circulating E-selectin (cE-selectin), circulating intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (cICAM-1), and circulating vascular adhesion molecule-1 (cVCAM-1) in both vegetarians and subjects of the average population and furthermore to evaluate the age dependence of cell adhesion molecules.