Clin Oral Invest DOI 10.1007/s00784-014-1386-z
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Periodontal treatment outcomes during pregnancy and postpartum Carlos Heitor Cunha Moreira & Patrícia Weidlich & Tiago Fiorini & José Mariano da Rocha & Marta Liliana Musskopf & Cristiano Susin & Rui Vicente Oppermann & Cassiano Kuchenbecker Rösing
Received: 17 March 2014 / Accepted: 8 December 2014 # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Abstract Objective This study was conducted to compare periodontal therapy outcomes during pregnancy and after delivery. Materials and methods One hundred nine pregnant women up to the 20th gestational week (GW) were randomized into two groups: the test group (comprehensive periodontal therapy during pregnancy) and the control group (comprehensive periodontal therapy after delivery). Periodontal examinations comprised plaque index (PI), gingival index (GI), periodontal probing depth (PPD), clinical attachment level (CAL), bleeding on probing (BOP), and gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) volume. After baseline examination, women in the test group received periodontal treatment up to the 24th GW. The final examination was performed at the 26th to the 28th GW. Women in the control group were treated 30 days after delivery and reexamined 30 days after treatment. Results Periodontal therapy significantly reduced periodontal inflammation in both groups. The mean percentage of sites with BOP was reduced from 49.14 % (±22.49) to 11.10 % (±7.84) and from 45.71 % (±17.86) to 8.07 % (±5.21) in the test and control groups, respectively (p=0.95). No statistically significant differences were observed between groups concerning PI, GI, PPD, CAL, and GCF. The reduction in C. H. C. Moreira : P. Weidlich : T. Fiorini : J. M. da Rocha : M. L. Musskopf : R. V. Oppermann : C. K. Rösing Section of Periodontology, Faculty of Dentistry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil C. H. C. Moreira (*) Department of Stomatology, Faculty of Dentistry, Federal University of Santa Maria, Floriano Peixoto 1184, Santa Maria 97015 372, Brazil e-mail: [email protected] C. Susin Department of Periodontics & Oral Biology, College of Dental Medicine, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, GA, USA
mean percentage of sites with BOP stratified for initial PPD ≥4 mm was higher in the control group (p
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Periodontal treatment outcomes during pregnancy and postpartum Carlos Heitor Cunha Moreira & Patrícia Weidlich & Tiago Fiorini & José Mariano da Rocha & Marta Liliana Musskopf & Cristiano Susin & Rui Vicente Oppermann & Cassiano Kuchenbecker Rösing
Received: 17 March 2014 / Accepted: 8 December 2014 # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Abstract Objective This study was conducted to compare periodontal therapy outcomes during pregnancy and after delivery. Materials and methods One hundred nine pregnant women up to the 20th gestational week (GW) were randomized into two groups: the test group (comprehensive periodontal therapy during pregnancy) and the control group (comprehensive periodontal therapy after delivery). Periodontal examinations comprised plaque index (PI), gingival index (GI), periodontal probing depth (PPD), clinical attachment level (CAL), bleeding on probing (BOP), and gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) volume. After baseline examination, women in the test group received periodontal treatment up to the 24th GW. The final examination was performed at the 26th to the 28th GW. Women in the control group were treated 30 days after delivery and reexamined 30 days after treatment. Results Periodontal therapy significantly reduced periodontal inflammation in both groups. The mean percentage of sites with BOP was reduced from 49.14 % (±22.49) to 11.10 % (±7.84) and from 45.71 % (±17.86) to 8.07 % (±5.21) in the test and control groups, respectively (p=0.95). No statistically significant differences were observed between groups concerning PI, GI, PPD, CAL, and GCF. The reduction in C. H. C. Moreira : P. Weidlich : T. Fiorini : J. M. da Rocha : M. L. Musskopf : R. V. Oppermann : C. K. Rösing Section of Periodontology, Faculty of Dentistry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil C. H. C. Moreira (*) Department of Stomatology, Faculty of Dentistry, Federal University of Santa Maria, Floriano Peixoto 1184, Santa Maria 97015 372, Brazil e-mail: [email protected] C. Susin Department of Periodontics & Oral Biology, College of Dental Medicine, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, GA, USA
mean percentage of sites with BOP stratified for initial PPD ≥4 mm was higher in the control group (p
