title: [Preventive periodontal care. Experience from general practice].
abstract: In a general dental practice treatment of all patients (N = 740) in the age of 15-65 years was directed towards reduction of sulcus (pocket) depths by scaling, planing and surgical corrections, and towards maintenance of the reduced pocket pattern. Before this treatment, one third of the patients (35 years and older) had light to severe forms of adult peridontitis. It was shown that the reduced pocketpatterns could be maintained in all age groups (20-35, 36-50, 51-77). Individual treatment-time for sub- and supragingival cleaning with scalers and curettes varied from 10 to 60 minutes per patient per year. Already during adolescence subgingival cleaning should be a standard procedure two times a year in order to prevent periodontitis and should be directed in the first place towards the approximal surfaces of the molars.
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authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kuit
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D012534:Dental Scaling; D005260:Female; D005881:Gingiva / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010510:Periodontal Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010512:Periodontal Index; D010514:Periodontal Pocket / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*