title: What is clinical significance?
abstract: This paper summarizes the clinical trial designs for therapies to reverse probing depth or control the progression of periodontitis, therapies to be used as an adjunct to scaling and root planning, as well as regenerative therapies. The approach to statistical significance is summarized and compared to clinical significance.
authors: University of Alabama School of Dentistry, Birmingham, Alabama 35294-0007, USA. jeffcoat@uab.edu
authors: Marjorie
authors: M
authors: Jeffcoat
mesh_terms: D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012534:Dental Scaling / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D010510:Periodontal Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy*; D010514:Periodontal Pocket / Q000628:therapy; D010518:Periodontitis / Q000628:therapy; D012107:Research Design / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016745:Root Planing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data