Effect of Root Planing on Surface Topography.

September 17, 2013 updated by: Juan Ignacio Rosales Leal, Universidad de Granada
In a clinical trial of 19 patients, 44 single-rooted teeth will be randomly assigned to one of four groups for: 1) no treatment, 2) manual root planing with curettes; 3) root planing with piezoelectric ultrasonic scraper [PU]; or 4) root planing with vertically oscillating ultrasonic device [VOU]. Post-treatment, the teeth will be extracted and their topography analyzed in 124 observations with white light confocal microscopy, measuring the roughness parameters Rp, Rv, Rt, Ra, Rq, Rku, and Rsk.

Study Overview

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

19

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

      • Granada, Spain, 18071
        • School of Dentistry, University of Granada

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Patients undergoing programmed tooth extraction for chronic advanced periodontitis.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patients with no advanced periodontitis or patients that refused the treatment.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: Double

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: no treatment
Control group with no treatment.
Experimental: root planing (gracey curettes)
treatment with root planing using conventional gracey curettes
Experimental: Vertically oscillating ultrasonic device
Treatment done with vertically oscillating ultrasonic device
Experimental: Device: piezoelectric ultrasonic scraper
Treatment using a piezoelectric ultrasonic scraper

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
Surface roughness
Time Frame: two years
two years

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start

January 1, 2011

Primary Completion (Actual)

January 1, 2013

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

July 2, 2013

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

September 17, 2013

First Posted (Estimate)

September 18, 2013

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

September 18, 2013

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

September 17, 2013

Last Verified

September 1, 2013

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • root planing tophography

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