COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF SCALING AND ROOT PLANING ON RED COMPLEX BACTERIA WITH AND WITHOUT MAGNIFICATION - A PILOT STUDY

Dr. Savita A.M; Dr. Varsha Venugopalan

Volume : VIII, Issue : IX, September - 2019

COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF SCALING AND ROOT PLANING ON RED COMPLEX BACTERIA WITH AND WITHOUT MAGNIFICATION - A PILOT STUDY

Dr. Savita A. M, Dr. Varsha Venugopalan

Abstract :

BACKGROUND: The primary modality of conventional periodontal treatment, scaling and root planing (SRP) is considered as the gold standard therapy. The current era of periodontics has been enriched with the introduction of modern instrumentation to provide maximum effectiveness for conventional periodontal therapy which includes magnifying loupes and surgical microscopes which are used in clinical practice for vision enhancement assisting the operator to provide better quality treatment. AIMS & OBJECTIVES : To evaluate the efficacy of scaling and root planing with and without magnification in chronic periodontitis patients by means of bacterial reduction and changes in clinical parameters. METHODOLOGY: This split mouth study includes a total of 5 patients with 80 sites (8 sites per quadrant for each patient) which were divided into two groups control and experimental. Clinical parameters and subgingival samples were collected at baseline and 6 weeks post instrumentation. The samples will be analysed using multiplex PCR. RESULTS: Among all the values, the intragroup comparison of the clinical parameters were statistically significant after 6 weeks and the inter group comparison were statistically insignificant. In the microbiological analysis, a statistically significant result was found in relation to Treponema denticola levels. CONCLUSION: No difference could be found among the groups in terms of objective outcomes but a significant reduction in the levels of T.denticola was observed.