Effects of Herbal Mouth Rinse for Chronic Periodontitis

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-04-15
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This double blind, randomized, placebo controlled, parallel clinical trial involved seventy five patients, suffering with chronic periodontitis, which were randomly divided in three groups: negative control (SRP+placebo), positive control (SRP+0.12% CHX), and test group (SRP+1% MTC mouth rinse). Mouth rinsing (adjunctive therapy) was continued for 1 month while clinical parameters [plaque index (PI), gingival index (GI), sulcus bleeding index (SBI), probing pocket depth (PPD), clinical attachment level (CAL), gingival recession (GR), stain index (SI)] were evaluated at base line, 1 month, and 3 months. CFU was also evaluating at above said time periods.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Institute of Dental Sciences, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India
• Treatments: Chlorhexidine; Chlorhexidine gluconate

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• systemically healthy individuals of > 30 years of age with previously untreated generalized chronic periodontitis (defined by Armitage in 1999),

• having minimum 15 teeth,

• minimum of six teeth with at least one interproximal site with PPD between 5-7mm,

• CAL between 5-10 mm, at least 30% of the sites with PPD and CAL ≥ 5 mm

• presence of bleeding on probing (BOP).

Exclusion Criteria:

• was any systemic disease,

• use of any medication in the previous 6 months,

• subjects wearing partial removal prosthesis or orthodontic appliance,

• allergy to ingredient used in the study, alcoholics, smokers or tobacoo users in any form, mentally retarded individual, pregnant or lactating females.