The present case cohort assessed the clinical performance of a regenerative strategy developed to increase clinicians’ ability to optimize the outcomes of regenerative periodontal surgery. The overall rationale for the proposed clinical approach comes from the recognition that the different regenerative approaches reported in the literature frequently lead to unsatisfactory and rather unpredicta...
RESULTS
Patient and Defect Characteristics at Baseline (Table 1)
FMPS and FMBS were 10.2% ± 2.7% and 7.9% ± 2.8%, respectively. On average, CAL was 10.2 ± 2.4 mm and PD 8.9 ± 1.8 mm. The radiographic defect angle was 29° ± 5.9°. The CEJ-BD distance was 11.2 ± 2.7 mm and the intrabony component of the defects (INFRA) was 6.6 ± 1.7 mm.
Selection of Surgical Flap
The simp...
Study Population and Experimental Design
Patients with advanced periodontal disease, in general good health, and presenting with deep intrabony defects were considered eligible for this study. The study protocol was approved by the local ethics committee and all subjects gave informed consent. Patients were enrolled in the authors’ private practices from January to July 2002 and were included a...
Periodontal regeneration in intra-bony defects has been successfully attempted with a variety of different approaches. Human and animal histological findings support the potential of barrier membranes, demineralized freeze-dried bone allograft (DFDBA), combination of barrier membranes and grafts, and enamel matrix derivative (EMD) to induce periodontal regeneration. In addition, controlled clinica...
Abstract
BACKGROUND:
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the clinical performance of a regenerative strategy for the treatment of deep intrabony defects.
METHODS:
This patient cohort study involved 40 patients with one deep interdental intrabony defect each. They were treated with periodontal regeneration using four different regenerative methods (expanded polytetrafluoroethylene [e...