Scaling and Root Planing: What to Expect During Periodontal Treatment

NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 11, 2025 / If you've encountered swelling, bleeding or pain in your gums, you may have developed periodontal disease. Also known as gum disease, this ...
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Scaling And Root Planning

WHY DO I NEED SCALING AND ROOT PLANNING? If you have been diagnosed with some form of periodontitis (see section on Periodontal Disease), the first step in trying to eliminate the infection and get ...
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Documentation musts for reimbursement of scaling and root planing

Periodontal treatment has changed as time has allowed us to learn new facts about the disease and the best types of treatment. Different autogenous and non-autogenous grafting materials are now used ...
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Dental insurance tip: Treatment plans for scaling and root planing should include treatment prescriptions

We all know that treatment plans are a list of proposed procedures and treatments that must be presented to patients in a way they understand and agree to. Usually, the dentist or hygienist introduces ...
Nature

Systemic antimicrobials offer an additional benefit over scaling and root planing alone in the treatment of periodontitis

Data sources Medline, the Cochrane Oral Health Group Trials Register and EMbase were data sources. Reference lists from relevant articles were also hand-searched and a further search was made by hand ...
Nature

Limited evidence shows short-term benefit of probiotics when used as an adjunct to scaling and root planing in the treatment of chronic periodontitis

Medline, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials and Science Direct databases. Hand searches of the Journal of Clinical Periodontology, Journal of Periodontology, Journal of Periodontal ...

Denver-area dentists are upselling invasive cleanings, PDS Health patients allege

The majority of the PDS Health-affiliated practices share a perception among former patients that the staff exaggerated their ...