ReviewJournal of periodontal & implant science2022
Azithromycin as an adjunct to subgingival professional mechanical plaque removal in the treatment of grade C periodontitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Review in Journal of periodontal & implant science, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.
- Systemic Antibiotics as Adjuncts in Periodontal Therapy for Stage III and Stage IV Periodontitis: An Umbrella Review Aligned with the 2018 World Workshop Classification, with AMSTAR-2 Critical Appraisal.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Azithromycin in Dentistry: From Systemic Antibiotic to a Candidate for Local Therapeutic Delivery.Pharmaceutics · 2026Review
- Inhibition of periodontitis progression by a non-steroidal inhibitor of steroid sulfatase in healing-impaired conditions: a preclinical rodent model pilot experiment.Journal of periodontal & implant science · 2026Article
- Microbiological and molecular aspects of periodontitis pathogenesis: an infection-induced inflammatory condition.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2025Review
- Adjunctive Systemic Azithromycin with Nonsurgical Periodontal Treatment: Effects on Clinical Parameters in Smokers with Periodontitis.Acta stomatologica Croatica · 2023Article
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Abstract
The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate clinical and microbiological outcomes with the use of azithromycin as an adjunct to non-surgical subgingival professional mechanical plaque removal (PMPR) in the treatment of grade C periodontitis. Online database searches using high-level MeSH terms in a PICO structure were conducted along with hand-searching of relevant periodontal journals. Titles and abstracts of identified studies were independently reviewed by both authors and the full texts of studies meeting the inclusion criteria were independently reviewed. In total, 122 studies were identified through searches, of which 6 were included in the qualitative analysis and 4 in the meta-analysis. Three studies included in the meta-analysis were deemed at low risk of bias and 1 at serious risk. There were conflicting results on whether azithromycin reduced the number of subgingival pathogens or detectable subgingival
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