Table 2.
Cultivable subgingival prevalence of periodontal pathogens before and immediately after 2 supragingival tooth polishing procedures
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Supragingival air polishing |
Supragingival prophylaxis paste polishing |
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Present pre-treatment |
Present post-polishing |
Present pre-treatment |
Present post-polishing |
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Subgingival species | |||||
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Mean log10 total viable counts/mL ± SD |
8.2 ± 0.9 |
7.4 ± 1.0b |
7.8 ± 0.5 |
7.4 ± 1.0 |
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Non-clustered species: | |||||
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Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
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Red complex species: | |||||
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Porphyromonas gingivalis |
3 |
1 |
3 |
3 |
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Orange complex species: | |||||
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Campylobacter species |
7 |
2 |
9 |
8 |
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Fusobacterium nucleatum |
14 |
5c |
6 |
6 |
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Parvimonas micra |
7 |
5 |
9 |
11 |
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Prevotella intermedia/nigrescens |
10 |
1c |
7 |
6 |
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Total red/orange complex species per subjecta |
15 |
8b |
13 |
13 |
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Values represent number of culture-positive subjects for species.
aRepresents cultivable presence per study subject of one or more of the evaluated red/orange complex species
bValue significantly different from pre-treatment, p = 0.023; cp = 0.008