13 small RCTs were identified for this review, comparing full mouth interventions with quadrant scaling for periodontitis. Limited evidence of a small benefit was found in two comparisons.
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This review looks at the association between periodontitis and obesity. It included 13 studies (8 cohorts; 5 clinical trials) and suggests that overweight, obesity, and weight gain, may be a risk factors for developing periodontitis.
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This blog by Tracey Howe considers a recent systematic review examining the links between ankylosing spondylitis and periodontitis.
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In this small trial the use of either an 8% arginine desensitising paste or prophy paste reduced dentine hypersensitivity after scaling but the arginine base paste was significantly better than the standard prophy paste.
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The review represents some of the output of the 2010 Global Burden of Disease studies and finds that severe periodontitis is the 6th most prevalent disease affecting about 11% of adults worldwide.The prevalence increases gradually with age with a steep increase between the 3rd and 4th decades.
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One of the aims of regular daily toothbrushing is to remove plaque as it is an important risk factor for caries an periodontal diseases. This new review looks at the evidence related to frequency of brushing and periodontal disease. Only 14 observational studies were included and these suggest that irregular brushing is associated with more severe periodontal disease.
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The latest critical summary from the ADA-EBD Center considers a 2012 systematic review from Graziani et al. The aim of the review was to assess the effectiveness of conservative periodontal surgery (CS) for the treatment of periodontitis-related intrabony defects. Conservative periodontal surgery was defined as procedures that involved debridement of intrabony defects and root surfaces [read the full story…]
Dental implants are increasingly common and a key factor in their long-term success is maintaining the health of the tissues that support them. The aim of this review was to assess the scientific evidence regarding the risks of implant loss, implant bone loss, and peri-implantitis incidence in subjects with a history of periodontal disease (PD), [read the full story…]
Periodontitis is a common problem with severe periodontitis being ranked as the 6th most prevalent condition in the 2010 Global Burden of Disease study (Marcenes et al 2013). The aim of this study by Thomson et al was to describe changes in the occurrence of periodontal attachment loss (AL) , and to evaluate risk factors [read the full story…]
A number of new critical summaries have been made available on the ADE-EBD website of the past few weeks. The first is an appraisal of a 2010 review by Martínez-Maestre et al. that looked at the association between dental bone loss and systemic osteoporosis. The reviewer highlighted that this was a weak review of observational [read the full story…]
