Premium
The Effectiveness of in Vivo Root Planing in Removing Bacterial Endotoxin from the Roots of Periodontally Involved Teeth
Author(s) -
Jones William A.,
O'Leary Timothy J.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of periodontology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.036
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1943-3670
pISSN - 0022-3492
DOI - 10.1902/jop.1978.49.7.337
Subject(s) - scaling and root planing , dentistry , significant difference , root (linguistics) , tooth root , in vivo , orthodontics , medicine , periodontitis , biology , linguistics , philosophy , chronic periodontitis , microbiology and biotechnology
In this study, scaling alone resulted in endotoxin values considerably greater than the values for healthy root surfaces. However, the root-planed Samples contained only about 1 ng more of endotoxin than did the healthy root surfaces. This small difference can be accounted for by the presence of small flecks of calculus left after root planing. Considering that out of a total sample size of 48 surfaces there was only 1 ng difference in the amount of endotoxin between planed teeth and uninvolved teeth, the basic conclusion must be that root planing, as performed in this study, was able to render diseased root surfaces approximately as free of detectable endotoxin as were uninvolved, healthy root surfaces of unerupted teeth.