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ArticleClinical oral investigations2015

Subgingival plaque sampling after combined mechanical and antibiotic nonsurgical periodontal therapy.

Tatjana Ramich, Beate Schacher, Susanne Scharf, Lasse Röllke, Rita Arndt, Peter Eickholz, Katrin Nickles

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Article in Clinical oral investigations, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7 authors.

Tatjana RamichDepartment of Periodontology, Centre for Dentistry and Oral Medicine (Carolinum), Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7 (Haus 29), 60596, Frankfurt, Germany.
Beate Schacher
Susanne Scharf
Lasse Röllke
Rita Arndt
Peter Eickholz
Katrin Nickles

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

aimThis study aimed to make a comparison of two sampling strategies of subgingival plaque after combined mechanical-antibiotic periodontal therapy.

methodsThirty patients (18 female) suffering from aggressive (n = 12) or generalised severe chronic (n = 18) periodontitis were included. Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans had been detected subgingivally in all prior to anti-infective therapy (AT) and combined mechanical-antibiotic AT had been rendered. After AT clinical examinations were performed and subgingival plaque was sampled from the same four sites as prior to AT (ASPRE) as well as from the four deepest sites after AT (DEEP). Per patient two pooled samples (ASPRE/DEEP) were generated and analysed for A. actinomycetemcomitans, Porphyromonas gingivalis, Tannerella forsythia and Treponema denticola using a commercial 16S rRNA test.

resultsASPRE failed to detect A. actinomycetemcomitans, DEEP detected A. actinomycetemcomitans only in two patients (7 %). Only for T. forsythia DEEP (53 %) provided higher detection frequencies than ASPRE (27 %; p = 0.005). Detection frequencies of P. gingivalis and T. denticola ranged from 47 to 53 %.

conclusionAfter combined mechanical-antibiotic AT sampling the deepest sites revealed higher detection rates. Combined mechanical-antibiotic AT suppresses A. actinomycetemcomitans to a higher extent than P. gingivalis, T. forsythia and T. denticola.

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Subgingival CurettageAdultAggressive PeriodontitisAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacterial LoadChronic PeriodontitisCombined Modality TherapyDental PlaqueFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedTreatment OutcomeAnti-Bacterial Agents

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