Open AccessClinical effects of photodynamic and low-level laser therapies as an adjunct to scaling and root planing of chronic periodontitis: A split-mouth randomized controlled clinical trial
Author(s) -
Suryakanth Malgikar,
Srikanth Reddy,
S Sagar,
D. Satyanarayana,
Guntakala Vikram Reddy,
Johnson Juliet Josephin
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
indian journal of dental research/indian journal of dental research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.277
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1998-3603
pISSN - 0970-9290
DOI - 10.4103/0970-9290.183130
Subject(s) - scaling and root planing , medicine , chronic periodontitis , photodynamic therapy , randomized controlled trial , dentistry , adjunct , clinical attachment loss , clinical trial , periodontitis , bleeding on probing , gingival and periodontal pocket , low level laser therapy , laser therapy , laser , linguistics , chemistry , philosophy , physics , organic chemistry , optics
There are limited clinical experiments addressing the effects of photodynamic therapy (PDT) and low-level laser therapy (LLLT) as an adjunct to conventional scaling and root planing (SRP) alone.