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ArticleCureus2025

Comparative Assessment of Antibiotics and Probiotics: Adjuvants in Nonsurgical Periodontal Treatment for Smokers With Generalized Periodontitis.

Sujay Shah, Kinjal S Engineer, Rutu Shah, Hiral Shah, Shreya Gajjar, Santosh Kumar, Mainul Haque

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Article in Cureus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Sujay ShahDepartment of Dentistry, GMERS Medical College, Gandhinagar, Gandhinagar, IND.
Kinjal S EngineerDepartment of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Dr. M. K. Shah Medical College and Research Center, Ahmedabad, IND.
Rutu ShahDepartment of Anaesthesiology, GMERS Medical College, Sola, Ahmedabad, IND.
Hiral ShahDepartment of Oral Pathology, Dr. M. K. Shah Medical College and Research Center, Ahmedabad, IND.
Shreya GajjarDepartment of Periodontology and Implantology, Karnavati School of Dentistry, Karnavati University, Gandhinagar, IND.
Santosh KumarDepartment of Periodontology and Implantology, Karnavati School of Dentistry, Karnavati University, Gandhinagar, IND.
Mainul HaqueDepartment of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, National Defence University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, MYS.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Introduction Humankind is suffering from the misuse and overuse of antibiotics, leading to antibiotic resistance. At this point, probiotics, if found effective, can lead to a better future. Probiotics are nothing but a colony of living-friendly bacteria.

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amoxicillinantibioticscolony forming unitsgeneralized periodontitislactic acid bacterialactobacillus reuterimetronidazolenon-surgical periodontal treatmentprobioticsscaling and root planing

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PMID39902253
PMCPMC11788449

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