Clinical efficacy of hand and power-driven instruments for subgingival instrumentation during periodontal surgical therapy: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This systematic review aims to assess the available literature on the clinical efficacy of hand versus power-driven instruments for subgingival instrumentation during surgical periodontal therapy (ST).

Materials and methods

A search of the literature was carried out on MEDLINE via Ovid, Embase, Web of Science, the Cochrane Database, LILACS, and Scopus. RCTs comparing the use of powered instruments (test) to hand scalers (control) for subgingival instrumentation in terms of changes in probing pocket depth (PPD) after surgical periodontal treatment were included and screened in duplicate. Descriptive synthesis of the data and risk of bias assessment were undertaken.

Results

Four RCTs met the inclusion criteria and were included in this systematic review. ST in

SUBMITTER: Perussolo J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9789306 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature