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Healing after treatment of periodontal intraosseous defects
Author(s) -
Renvert Stefan,
Nilvéus Rolf,
Egelberg Jan
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
journal of clinical periodontology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.456
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1600-051X
pISSN - 0303-6979
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-051x.1985.tb00933.x
Subject(s) - dentistry , medicine , citric acid , regeneration (biology) , surgery , chemistry , biology , organic chemistry , microbiology and biotechnology
The present study compared surgical therapy to root planing atone in the treatment of periodontal intraosscous defects. 25 defects in 14 patients were subjected to root planing only and another 25 defects in the same patients were surgically exposed and citric acid treated. The healing response was evaluated 6 months after treatment The mean gain of probing attachment level was 0.8 mm in the root‐planed defects as compared to 1.3 mm for the surgically exposed and acid‐treated defects. The probing bone level improved an average of 0.2 mm for the root‐planed areas as compared to 0.6 mm for the acid‐treated defects. The mean preoperative probing pocket depths of 6.7 mm and 6.7 mm for the 2 groups were reduced to 5.2 mm and 4.1 mm, respectively. The differences in these parameters were statistically significant between the 2 groups. However, both groups demonstrated limited regeneration.