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 ...

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 ...

There is difficulty in combining different studies in a meta-analysis, but all these therapies appear to have some useful effects. This study examined scaling and root planing effects in relation to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Research suggests links between periodontal disease and rheumatoid arthritis, so might scaling and root planing reduce signs of both diseases in patients with both conditions? To find out, ...

Maternal periodontal disease has been associated with an increased risk of preterm birth and low birth weight. We studied the effect of nonsurgical periodontal treatment on preterm birth. We randomly ...