Open AccessEfficacy of curcumin as an adjunct to scaling and root planning in chronic periodontitis patients: A clinical and microbiological study
Author(s) -
M Nagasri,
M Madhulatha,
Musalaiah Sv,
P. Anil Kumar,
Krishna Ch,
Kumar Pm
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of pharmacy and bioallied sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.268
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 0976-4879
pISSN - 0975-7406
DOI - 10.4103/0975-7406.163537
Subject(s) - adjunct , curcumin , medicine , scaling and root planing , periodontitis , chronic periodontitis , dentistry , intensive care medicine , pharmacology , philosophy , linguistics
Curcumin is a naturally occurring anti-inflammatory agent with various biologic and medicinal properties. Its therapeutic applications have been studied in a variety of conditions, but only few studies have evaluated the efficacy of curcumin as local drug delivery agent and in the treatment of periodontitis. The present study was to evaluate the efficacy of the adjunctive use of curcumin with scaling/root planing as compared with scaling/root planing alone in the treatment of the chronic periodontitis.