Repeated delivery of chlorhexidine chips for the treatment of peri-implantitis: A multicenter, randomized, comparative clinical trial.
Eli E MachteiGeorgios RomanosPhilip KangSuncica TravanStephan SchmidtEvangelos PapathanasiouNikolaos TatarakisMoshik TandlichLeila H LibermanJacob HorwitzSeyed Hossein BassirSrinivas MyneniHarlan J ShiauLior ShapiraNikos DonosAthena PapasJoerg MeyleWilliam V GiannobilePanos N PapapanouDavid M KimPublished in: Journal of periodontology (2020)
Patients with peri-implantitis that were treated with an intensive treatment protocol of bi-weekly supragingival plaque removal and local application of chlorhexidine chips had greater mean IPD reduction and greater percentile of sites with IPD reduction of ≥2 mm as compared with bi-weekly supra-gingival plaque removal.