Retrospective exploratory study of smoking status and e-cigarette use with response to non-surgical periodontal therapy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To compare periodontal treatment responses in electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) users, non-smokers, former and current smokers.

Methods

In this retrospective clinical study, 220 patients with periodontitis were seen for baseline periodontal charting, professional-mechanical-plaque-removal (PMPR) and re-evaluation by postgraduate students. Sixty of these patients were former smokers, twenty were former smokers now using e-cigarettes, twenty current smokers, while all others (n = 120) were non-smokers. Effects of smoking status and treatment duration on clinical outcomes were analyzed by linear models using generalized least squares adjusted for known confounders. The primary outcome was "need for surgery" defined as number of sextants with ≥2 non-adjacent sites of

SUBMITTER: Shah C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10087441 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature