Alummouth Wash as an Adjunctive Treatment in Chronic Periodontits

Hussain Auwaid. B.D.S. MSc, Dr.; Kadhim Jawad B.D.S. MSc, Dr.

	Alummouth Wash as an Adjunctive Treatment in Chronic Periodontits
MUSTANSIRIA DENTAL JOURNAL
Article 1, Volume 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 328-334
Authors
Dr. Hussain Auwaid. B.D.S. MSc; Dr. Kadhim Jawad B.D.S. MSc
Abstract
The term of (Alum) refers to various isomorphous double sulfates composed of trivalent and univalent metals, especially aluminum potassium sulfate, KAl (SO4)2·12H2O, Alum as a compound has been used in past to treat different oral and medical conditions. Using of alum as a mouth wash in periodontology was not completely explored and only a few studies were carried out regarding this subject. This study was carried out to observe the effect of alum as an adjunctive therapy in periodontitis. One hundred twenty patients with chronic periodontitis were randomly allocated into four groups. The first group treated with conventional root planing procedure using periodontal curette. The other three groups were treated with the same conventional procedure followed by twice a day mouth rinse with different concentrations of Alum solutions for three weeks after root planing. Means of PLI, GI & PD were calculated for the participants before treatment and three weeks after. Results of this research showed a significant decrease in all study parameters in all groups with significant differences between the two different modalities of treatment. Alum solution can be a good adjunctive treatment for chronic periodontitis, but more studies are needed on both short and long terms.
Keywords
Key Words; Aluminum sulphate; Periodontitis; Mouth wash

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