title: How effective is surgical therapy compared with nonsurgical debridement?
authors.affiliation: The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia.
authors.forename: Lisa J A
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Heitz-Mayfield
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D003646:Debridement; D012534:Dental Scaling; D006801:Humans; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D019647:Oral Surgical Procedures; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010518:Periodontitis / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012196:Review Literature as Topic; D013357:Subgingival Curettage