Clinical and microbiological efficacy of intra-pocket application of diode laser in grade C periodontitis : a randomized controlled clinical trial

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BACKGROUND: Periodontitis is a microbially induced disease destroying structures anchoring teeth to jaw bones. Although metronidazole in combination with spiramycin is the effective conventional treatment of stage III grade C periodontitis, it has several systemic side effects. Laser therapy is widely used nowadays as an adjunct to scaling and root planing (SRP) to modulate inflammatory host response and eradicate microbes, due to bactericidal and detoxifying effects. Since microbiological analysis is one of the diagnostic methods identifying periodontal risk; our research aimed to investigate the efficacy of intra-pocket application of diode laser (980 nm) versus antibiotic therapy in enhancing clinical and microbiological parameters in stage III grade C periodontitis.

METHODS: A randomized controlled clinical trial was conducted on fifty patients with stage III grade C periodontitis, divided equally into two groups. We managed test group by SRP with intra-pocket application of diode laser (980 nm) and the control group by SRP with systemic antibiotic administration (spiramycin and metronidazole). Then, we measured periodontal pocket depth (PPD) and clinical attachment loss (CAL) for both groups, before treatment (baseline), four and twelve weeks after. Moreover, we collected gingival crevicular fluid from both groups at baseline, four and twelve weeks after treatment and analyzed by real-time polymerase chain reaction to detect the relative count of Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans and Porhyromonas gingivalis.

RESULTS: Compared to baseline, all assessed clinical and microbiological parameters attested improvement at the end of the study period in each group individually with no significant difference between the two studied groups. Although, at twelve weeks, flare up of bacterial levels was detected with systemic antibiotic administration.

CONCLUSION: Laser therapy can be considered as an effective treatment modality in stage III grade C periodontitis, avoiding the systemic antibiotic side effects and solving the recurrence problems due to bacterial resistance by long term usage.

TRIAL REGISTRATION: NCT05222737 retrospectively on 03/02/2022, Clinicaltrial.gov.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:24

Enthalten in:

BMC oral health - 24(2024), 1 vom: 23. Feb., Seite 270

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Anwar, Souzy Kamal [VerfasserIn]
Hafez, Amira Mohamed [VerfasserIn]
Roshdy, Yara Safwat [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

140QMO216E
8025-81-8
Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Antibiotic
Diode laser
Gingival crevicular fluid
Journal Article
Metronidazole
Periodontitis
Porhyromonas Gingivalis
Randomized Controlled Trial
Real-time polymerase chain reaction
Spiramycin

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 26.02.2024

Date Revised 27.02.2024

published: Electronic

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT05222737

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s12903-024-04031-0

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM368858049