Clinical and microbiological effects of scaling and root planing, metronidazole and amoxicillin in the treatment of diabetic and non-diabetic subjects with periodontitis: A cohort study.
Poliana Mendes DuarteMagda Gomes FeresLina Lameh Smeili YassineGeisla Mary Silva SoaresTamires Szeremeske MirandaMarcelo FaveriBelen Retamal-ValdesLuciene Cristina FigueiredoPublished in: Journal of clinical periodontology (2018)
Non-diabetic subjects with severe periodontitis did not respond better than type 2 diabetic subjects to the treatment protocol of SRP + MTZ + AMX, both in terms of achieving the clinical endpoint for treatment and of PD improvement. Diabetic subjects exhibited a slightly worse microbiological response and showed a healing process more associated with gingival recession than the non-diabetics.