ReviewPharmaceutics2025
Microbiological Impact of Antimicrobial Photodynamic Therapy in Non-Surgical Periodontal Treatment.
Review in Pharmaceutics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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2 citing papers in PubMed.
- The Use of Molecular Biology Methods to Evaluate the Activity of Different Topical Treatments Against Periodontal Pathogen Bacteria.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The Current State of Research in the Field of Photosensitizers and Photoactivators for Photodynamic/Photothermal Cancer Therapy: A Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
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Abstract
Periodontitis is one of the most common inflammatory diseases and it is linked to the presence of a dysbiotic subgingival microbiome. The purpose of this review is to evaluate the impact of antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) on the subgingival microbiome. Herein, based on an extensive evaluation of randomized controlled trials (RCTs), the effects of aPDT as a supplement to non-surgical periodontal therapy (NSPT) were found to be the main focus of these works. Studies that focused on analyzing microbiological results were selected, yielding contradictory results. The observed microbiological changes were variable, even though some studies showed notable improvements in clinical indicators such as bleeding on probing (BOP), clinical attachment level (CAL), and probing depth (PD). Several studies found that aPDT did not significantly reduce important periodontal pathogens such
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