Treatment of chronic periodontitis with phytoextract

BACKGROUND: Increasing the efficiency of diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of periodontal diseases, especially its initial forms, remains challenging.

AIM: To evaluate the effectiveness of treatment of patients with mild and moderate chronic generalized periodontitis (CGP) using phytoextract.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: A comprehensive dental examination and treatment was performed in 120 patients diagnosed with CGP of mild severity and CGP of moderate severity, of whom 47 were men (35.7%) and 73 were women (64.3%).

RESULTS: The use of phytoextract in patients with CGP of mild severity contributed to the improvement of the parameters of the dental status of patients in this group. The course application of complex treatment with the additional inclusion of phytoextract in the main group (MG) led to a decrease in the hygienic index by 54.13% (p <0.05), while reducing the parameter in patients using gel with metronidazole (comparison group — CG) — by 26.3% (p <0.05) compared with the initial values. At the same time, there was a significant decrease of bleeding index (BI) in MG — by 69.2% (p <0.05), with a similar shift in patients with CG — by 32.13% (p <0.05), a decrease of periodontal index (P)I in MG — by 52.9% (p <0.05), in CG — by 38.9% (p <0.05) compared to the initial values.

CONCLUSION: The use of phytoextract in patients of MG contributed to an improvement in dental status, a decrease in hygiene indices, and prolonged action in the long term. As a result of the course of treatment and follow-up, clinical signs of inflammation in periodontal tissues were stopped in patients with CGP of mild severity and CGP of moderate severity, which was accompanied by an improvement in the condition of the oral cavity of patients, the absence of complaints related to the severity of inflammation, and was also confirmed by the values of periodontal indices.