Adjunctive Probiotics in Chronic Periodontitis

Summary

This study will assess clinical and microbiological efficacy of probiotics and antibiotics in patients of chronic periodontitis as an adjunctive to scaling and root planing (SRP) in reducing bacterial count and in improving clinical periodontal parameters over the period of 12 weeks.Also the comparison between these adjunctives will be made for clinical assessment clinical periodontal parameters will be taken .these parameters plaque index (PI), gingival index (GI), clinical attachment loss (CAL) and pocket probing depth (PPD) for microbiological assessment plaque sample will be taken, DNA will be extracted and then sample will be processed through quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) for quantitative analysis of bacterial count of porphyromonas gingivalis.

Timeline

Start

2017-11-01

Primary completion

2018-09-01

Completion

2018-10-01

Drugs

Indications