[Periodontal guided tissue regeneration with a rubber dam: short term clinical study].
BACKGROUND
The guided regeneration of periodontal tissues demonstrated to represent a therapeutical technique with predictable results. It has been observed that different materials, used as regenerative membranes, offer very similar results. Unconventional materials too, like the rubber dam, seem to be useful in the guided tissues regeneration technique. The object of the present study has been to comparatively evaluate the effectiveness of Gore-Tex and rubber dam-made membranes in the therapy of intra-osseous periodontal defects.


METHODS
Six patients with two similar intra-osseous defects, participated in the study; one defect has been treated using, during the surgical intervention, a Gore-Tex membrane, while the other has received, a fragment of sterile rubber dam membranes. The principal clinical parameters of the periodontal health (probing depth -PD- and attachment loss -AL-) has been evaluated in both the defects before and 6 months after the periodontal surgery.


CONCLUSIONS
The results have showed that there are not statistically significant differences (p > 0.05) in the healing of the intra-osseous defects treated by rubber dam or Gore-Tex. The conclusion is drawn that the rubber dam can represent a valid and cheap alternative to the materials traditionally used in the regenerative surgery of the periodontal tissues.
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Istituto di Discipline Odontostomatologiche, Università degli Studi G. D'Annunzio, Chieti.
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D006801:Humans; D010510:Periodontal Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D010519:Periodontium / Q000502:physiology*; D012038:Regeneration; D016733:Rubber Dams
Rigenerazione guidata dei tessuti parodontali con diga di gomma: studio clinico a breve termine.