Periodontal therapy, regeneration, soft tissue management and peri-implant health.
77 articles
The papilla preservation flap is a periodontal surgical technique designed to maintain interdental soft tissue integrity while providing adequate access for root debridement and…
Dr. Shipra Singh
Magnification error in the diagnostic intra oral periapical radiograph could mislead the diagnosis and treatment plan in dentistry. This article describes a simplest chair side procedure…
Dr. A Mahalakshmi
The restoration of the complex bone-ligament-cementum interface remains a significant challenge in regenerative dentistry. While traditional guided tissue regeneration (GTR) often results…
Dr. Supriya
Background: Gingival recession is a prevalent periodontal condition that can lead to root hypersensitivity, aesthetic concerns, and an increased risk of root caries. Surgical interventions…
Dr. Belim Wasim Siraj
Objective: To compare the clinical effects of two periodontal treatment modalities: application of 0.12 % chlorhexidine digluconate solution versus application of PerioChip after scaling…
Dr. Sahmedin Sali
Objectives: To realize or perform comparative analysis of the therapeutic effect of chlorhexidine - gel on the periodontal pocket with conventional treatment and standard treatment assisted…
Dr. Sahmedin Sali
Peri-implant disease is a prevalent and challenging condition associated with dental implants, characterized by inflammatory reactions in the surrounding peri-implant tissues. This review…
Dr. Ritu Agrawal
Osteoporosis and periodontal diseases are common problems among the elderly population. Vitamin D is a secosteroid hormone that is either synthesized by human skin cells under the effect of…
Dr. Ankita Sharma
Understanding the interaction between different streams of dentistry is essential for the clinicians as it becomes challenging to achieve a diagnosis, plan a treatment and predict the…
Dr. Radha Kumari
Tissue engineering is a highly promising field of reconstructive biology that draws on recent advances in medicine, surgery, molecular and cellular biology, polymer chemistry, and…
Dr. Ankita Sharma
Periodontal disease is an immuno-inflammatory condition involving the tissues that surround and support the teeth. The earlier focus is towards mechanical debridement but with recent…
Dr. Ankita Garg
Periodontal diseases are chronic infectious disease in which the pathogenic bacteria initiate the host immune response leading to the destruction of tooth supporting tissue and eventually…
Dr. Ritu Agrawal
Gingival recession occurs when the location of the gingival margin lies apical to the cemento-enamel junction (CEJ) and leads to dentinal hypersensitivity, unesthetic appearance and…
Dr. Akanksha Singh
Chronic periodontitis is an infectious disease associated with specific bacteria and characterized by inflammation of supporting tissues of teeth and the progressive destruction of alveolar…
Dr. Satendra Sharma
Piezosurgery is a new therapeutic modality that can be used to replace traditional surgical procedures in Periodontology and Implantology. Piezosurgery uses piezoelectric ultrasonic…
Dr. Ankita Garg
A complex natural process is involved in regenerating periodontal structures lost during periodontal disease. The natural process includes relations between cells and growth factors. Growth…
Dr. Ankita Garg
Periodontal tissue engineering uses a multidisciplinary approach to restore periodontal ligament, alveolar bone, and cementum around teeth. When cementum is visible on the root surface…
Dr. Gaurav Singh
Clustered Regularly InterSpaced Palindromic Repeats is what CRISPR stands for. This is a protein that is programmable and can edit, eliminate, or turn the genome on or off. This is a modern…
Dr. Saksham Kulshrestha
Periodontal plaque is composed of bacterial aggregates that are the primary cause of periodontal disease associated with one another and with surfaces and interfaces.A biofilm of highly…
Dr. Gaurav Singh
The mucocele is one of the most common benign tissue masses that occur in oral cavity. It is basically of two types : mucous retention and mucous extravasation type. Clinical observation…
Dr. Aakanksha Tiwari
A force that exceeds our periodontal tissues' adaptive capacity causes injury to periodontal structures, and the resulting trauma is called occlusion trauma (TFO). It has been hypothesized…
Dr. Gaurav Singh
Our goal in writing this article was to increase awareness of oral complications in children with diabetes mellitus and the way in which they should be managed. A google review was…
Dr. Gaurav Singh
Our goal in writing this article was to increase awareness of oral complications in children with diabetes mellitus and the way in which they should be managed. A google review was…
Dr. Gaurav Singh
Periodontal plaque is composed of bacterial aggregates that are the primary cause of periodontal disease associated with one another and with surfaces and interfaces. A biofilm of highly…
Dr. Gaurav Singh
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We Acknowledged the valuable contribution of Dr. Ankita Rath , Tutor, Department of Conservative Dentistry, Hi-Tech Dental College & Hospital, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, in making…
Dr. Naina Pattnaik
As with the exciting developments seen in periodontal therapy today, more successful and outstanding treatments are looming in the sky. Over the past two decades, periodontology research…
Dr. Akanksha Raj
The management of a tooth with a subgingival fracture line is often thought to be a complicated procedure. 1 While restoring the fractured tooth is the primary concern, one also has to be…
Dr. Vandana Daga
Introduction: Current methods for gingival depigmentation, including mechanical surgery, cryosurgery, laser treatments, and radiosurgery, create significant patient discomfort and risk of…
Dr. Nagishetty Sindhura
For variety of systemic diseases, oral cavity functions as an early indicator. Thorough examination of the oral mucosa, gingiva, teeth, tongue and other oral tissues gives early and…
Dr. Gaurav Gupta
Palatogingival groove is a rare developmental anomaly which affects tooth morphology that could facilitate the accumulation of bacteria and predisposes the involved tooth to develop a…
Dr. Shashikanth Hegde
With an increasing scope for the orthodontic treatment, the professional is constantly looking for ways to accelerate tooth movement. Periodontal accelerated osteogenic orthodontics (PAOO)…
Dr. Harshavardhan
Vitamin D plays an essential role in maintaining the calcium levels in the bone. They go through various processes to be activated. The activated Vitamin plays most of the functions. Thus…
Dr. Manini
Successful periodontal reconstruction comprises regeneration of multiple tissues including cementum, periodontal ligament, bone and gingiva. The production or regeneration of any tissue…
Dr. Jyosthna G Madhurkar
Aim The aim of this article is to describe a case report on the effects of long-standing Gastroesophageal (GERD) reflux disease and long-term overzealous tooth brushing on the dentition…
Dr. Razia Haidrus
Recession coverage is a common clinical condition leading to dentinal hypersensitivity. Faulty tooth brushing, periodontal disease and thin gingival biotype are the etiological factors for…
Dr. Deepika Bali
Drug-induced gingival overgrowth (DIGO) remains a significant problem for the dental clinicians and the periodontologists. Patients medicated with certain drugs may be implicated in this…
Dr. Mun Mukherjee
In routine dental practice “gingival recession (GR)” defects are frequently encountered complain because of functional and esthetic concern of the patients. GR is defined as the…
Dr. Shashikanth Hegde
"Root resection" is a process by which one or more of the roots of a tooth are removed at the level of the furcation while leaving the crown and remaining roots in function. 1 Proper…
Dr. Sazia Amreen
AIM: The aim of the study is to perform a comparative evaluation of two different gum paints that is 1% Chlorhexidine Gluconate gel and Co-enzyme Q10 gel on its effects on periodontal…
Dr. Aditi Bhalla
Favourable esthetics is one of the most important treatment outcomes in dentistry. Interdisciplinary approaches are often required to achieve this. Alveolar ridge deformity occurs…
Dr. Shashikanth Hegde
Root fractures may be horizontal, vertical or oblique in pattern. Horizontal root fracture is usually characterized by a fracture line perpendicular to the long axis of the root of a tooth…
Dr. Shashikanth Hegde
Although periodontitis is an infectious disease of periodontal tissues, changes that occur in the bone are crucial, because destruction of bone is responsible for tooth loss. Although…
Dr. Neethu.P
Aggressive periodontitis is characterized by rapid progression and destruction of periodontal tissues, thus rendering a great challenge to clinicians with regard to treatment and prosthetic…
Dr. Pragati R. Bhat
Periodontal maintenance is an important aspect of periodontal treatment especially in patients with Aggressive Periodontitis. The treatment plan in Aggressive Periodontitis involves a…
Dr. Pragati R. Bhat
The effects of chronic local irritation have been seen commonly in the form of fibromas. Traumatic Fibroma is one of the most common benign lesions of the oral cavity, results from reactive…
Dr. V. Sneha
Deformities of the dentoalveloar ridge are usually the result of developmental defects, periodontal disease, trauma, or surgical insult. During healing, the overlying soft tissue collapses…
Dr. B.S. Jagadish Pai
Bleeding is a common sequela of periodontal and oral surgery. Generally, bleeding is self-limiting. Special circumstances require additional procedures to reduce or eliminate active…
Dr.Hemang Mangukia
Squamous cell carcinoma encompasses 90% of all malignant neoplasm of oral cavity. Gingival squamous cell carcinomas are relatively rare and may mimic common inflammatory lesions with benign…
Dr. Kratika Baldua
Dental calculus consists of mineralized bacterial plaque that form on the surfaces of natural teeth and dental prostheses. Although the primary cause of gingival inflammation is bacterial…
Dr. Sohini Banerjee
Wound healing is a process which involves the activity of leukocytes and platelets. For healing to work efficiently, the platelets play a vital role. Platelet consists of growth factor…
Dr. Sapna Shastri
Peripheral ossifying fibroma (POF) was coined by Eversole and Rovin in 1972.It is a relatively uncommon gingival growth that is considered to be reactive in nature and postulated to appear…
Dr. Deepa Hegde.Y
Authors : Dr. Sohini Banerjee, Dr. Sreya Pal, Dr. T. K.Pal. Abstract Low level laser therapy has opened up a new era of treatment modality which includes the application of light energy to…
Dr. Sohini Banerjee
Periodontal diseases are infectious diseases, but the specific mechanism by which the tooth-supportive tissue is destroyed is not clearly understood..Viral infection impairs periodontal…
Dr. Rajashree Ganguly
Vaccination is a process that induces specific immune resistance to a bacterial or viral infection. Vaccine research in periodontal diseases is still in its infancy. The complexities in the…
Dr. Radhika Gupta
Periodontitis is a destructive inflammatory disease of the supporting tissues of the teeth. This condition is caused by a chronic, mixed infection of gram-negative bacteria. Periodontal…
Dr. M. Siddharth
Pyogenic granuloma is a common, usually solitary, benign sessile or pedunculated vascular proliferation of the skin and mucous membranes, presenting as hemorrhagic growth. This term is a…
Dr. Sachin Shivanaikar
Background: Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is the most frequent oral malignant neoplasm, which accounts for more than 90% of all malignant lesions in the mouth.Gingival SCC differs from oral…
Dr. Singh Rajbir
Irritant contact dermatitis due to the use of latex gloves is a well-known condition seen commonly in health care professionals and particularly dental clinicians. Professionals should not…
Dr. Tanay V. Chaubal
Gingival enlargement is one of the manifestations of the periodontal disease. It has various local and systemic causes. Present report is a case of leukemia induced gingival enlargement in…
Dr. Ruchi D. Raval
Gngival growths are one of the most frequently encountered lesions in the oral cavity. Most of these lesions are innocuous, but some do have malignant potential. Different lesions with…
Dr. Tanay V. Chaubal
The aim of the present case series is to show varying clinical manifestations of gingival enlargement with different doses of amlodipine, age, sex and oral hygiene. Nifedipine is the common…
Dr. Ruchi D. Raval
Biomedical sciences have made major advances in understanding how tissues repair, and the signalling mechanisms required to achieve this goal are progressively being searched. As a result…
Dr. Anshuman Dwivedi
Background: Most frequent cause of tooth loss in adults is periodontal disease and much of the treatment is focused on destruction of the disease, and not doing enough to prevent the…
Dr.Divya Kothari
Pyogenic granuloma is an overzealously proliferative non-neoplastic lesion of connective tissue origin, found commonly in oral cavity and is secondary to chronic low grade local irritation…
Dr. Neetu
Earlier periodontal diseases were thought to occur as a result of bacterial infection. With the changing concepts in the pathogenesis of periodontal diseases, it was seen that host…
Dr. Afaf Zia
A number of dental procedures cause acute post procedural pain , making effective pain management for all patients an essential component of dental practice. Achieving adequate and safe…
Dr. Aditi Gupta
The various procedures in the dental treatment causes the exposure to the bacterial aerosols. Among all the procedures used the use of ultrasonic scaling produces the high amount of…
Dr. Sachin Shivanaikar
The use of lasers has evolved as clinical experience along with scientific investigation. The dental lasers of today have benefited from decades of laser research and have their basis in…
Dr. Devanand Shetty
Gingival recession is the exposure of root surfaces due to apical migration of the gingival tissues. Though it seldom results in tooth loss, marginal tissue recession poses esthetic…
Dr. Divakaran R
Excessive gingival display commonly referred to as “Gummy Smile” can be a source of embarrassment for some patients. Delayed eruption and tooth malpositioning can be predictably treated…
Dr. Arti J. Raval
Diverse group of pathologic process can produce the enlargement of soft tissues in the oral cavity and often present a diagnostic challenge. This soft tissue enlargement may represent a…
Dr. Nipun Dhalla
Background: Local antimicrobial therapy has become an established part of the armamentarium for the reduction of plaque and gingival inflammation in the treatment of gingivitis. The…
Dr. Gurpreet Kaur
Recent years have shown the presence of free radicals in causation and progression of various dental diseases and antioxidant usage in dental therapeutics. Antioxidant micronutrients are…
Dr. Shubhendu Saraswat
The proper diagnosis and treatment of Endo-perio lesions is a clinical challenge. The Endo-periodontal lesions can have unusual presentations and absence of carious tooth makes it difficult…
Dr. Sonali Nagrale
Peripheral Giant Cell Granuloma is a reactive lesion of the jaws seen on gingiva and alveolar ridge, manifest as a soft purplish-red nodule consisting of multinucleated giant cells in a…
Dr. Anu Aggarwal
Excessive gingival pigmentation is a major esthetic concern for many people. Melanin pigmentation of the gingiva occurs in all races. Melanin, a brown pigment, is the most common natural…
Dr. Harmeeta Budhiraja
A mouthwash may be recommended as an antimicrobial, a topical anti-inflammatory agent, a topical analgesic, or for caries prevention. Many different mouthwashes are commercially available…
Dr. Varun Dahiya
Original research, case reports and review articles are welcomed from clinicians and researchers worldwide. Every submission is assessed by the editorial board.
