Effect of Root Planing on Surface Topography.

N/ACompletedNCT01945632

Universidad de Granada19 enrolled

Overview

In a clinical trial of 19 patients, 44 single-rooted teeth will be randomly assigned to one of four groups for: 1) no treatment, 2) manual root planing with curettes; 3) root planing with piezoelectric ultrasonic scraper \[PU\]; or 4) root planing with vertically oscillating ultrasonic device \[VOU\]. Post-treatment, the teeth will be extracted and their topography analyzed in 124 observations with white light confocal microscopy, measuring the roughness parameters Rp, Rv, Rt, Ra, Rq, Rku, and Rsk.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

DOUBLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Chronic Periodontitis

Interventions

conventional gracey curettesDEVICE

Vertically oscillating ultrasonic deviceDEVICE

piezoelectric ultrasonic scraperDEVICE

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Patients undergoing programmed tooth extraction for chronic advanced periodontitis. Exclusion Criteria: * Patients with no advanced periodontitis or patients that refused the treatment.

Locations (1)

School of Dentistry, University of Granada

Granada, Granada, Spain

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Surface roughness

Time frame: two years

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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