Microbiological and clinical evaluation of efficacy of locally delivered tetracycline in conjunction with scaling and root planning

• Main Authors: Pragya Sharma (Author), Parshad Mehta (Author), Devansh Manocha (Author), Sandesh J Bansal (Author), Brahmananda Dutta (Author), Vidya D Kosuri (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction: Chronic periodontitis is an infectious disease which is multifactorial in etiology. The red complex bacteria have an enzyme capable of hydrolyzing the synthetic trypsin substrate, N-benzoyl-DL-arginine-2-napthylamide (BANA). Tetracycline as a bacteriostatic agent is used in the treatme...