Treatment trends in periodontics

Abstract

This volume of Periodontology 2000, entitled “Treatment Trends in Periodontics”, evaluates the importance of nonsurgical periodontal therapy and defines its role as the key etiologic treatment of the disease. The need for scaling and root planing is mandatory step during the initial phase of therapy, as is self‐care by the patient. Only after reevaluation of the outcome achieved by nonsurgical procedures should surgery be considered, and the concept of “critical probing depth” is emphasized. The chapters in this volume discuss different aspects of periodontal surgery, including regeneration and plastic periodontal procedures, and, looking toward the future, cell therapy in periodontics is explored. The impact of periodontal therapy on systemic diseases is reviewed, and the role of occlusion in periodontal disease is revisited and discussed. Topics on implants include their placement in fresh extraction sockets, socket healing with or without implant placement, and research on osseointegration. The important topic of maintenance care of teeth and implants for long‐term therapeutic success is thoroughly evaluated, as is the efficacy of dentifrices in oral hygiene. The editors convey a nutshell review of the concepts of what periodontal treatment should entail, based on scientific evidence generated during half‐a‐century of work in periodontics.

Liquid PRF Reduces the Inflammatory Response and Osteoclastogenesis in Murine Macrophages

“…While, rheumatoid arthritis is successfully treated with biologicals, including blocking of the major inflammatory cytokines TNFa and IL6, causing a reduction of the inflammatory symptoms (8,9), this systemic therapeutically strategy is not feasible in oral diseases such as chronic periodontitis; an inflammation of the periodontal tissue caused by the virulence factors of the biofilm and other local mediators (4,10). Chronic periodontitis therefore requires local therapeutic strategies, in concert with removing of the bacterial biofilm and calculus by scaling and root planning (11), to target the chronic inflammation in periodontitis with the overall aim to diminish the activation of inflammatory macrophages by their virulence factors such as LPS, and thereby reduce the formation and activation of osteoclasts.…”

Periodontal condition and treatment in a patient with rare systemic condition: A case report for acid sphingomyelinase deficiency

“…The gold‐standard periodontal treatment is nonsurgical intervention 23 . This therapeutic model was used here, 16 in addition to the supragingival biofilm control as an independent phase, to be executed before the SRP intervention 24 .…”

Formulation of a Semisolid Emulsion Containing Leptospermum scoparium Essential Oil and Evaluation of In Vitro Antimicrobial and Antibiofilm Efficacy

“…Periodontitis has been associated with systemic conditions that carry significant mortality including cardiovascular disease, stroke, and diabetes [10]. Treatment involves scaling and root planing to remove the biofilm, often in combination with the application of antibiotics or antiseptics such as tetracycline and CHX [11].…”