Table 2.
Therapy additional to nonsurgical anti-infective treatment (subgingival debridement: SD; supportive periodontal treatment: SPT)
| Parameters | Chronic periodontitis; ChP (n = 25) |
Aggressive periodontitis; AgP (n = 17) |
p |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extractions between baseline and 3 months: median (lower/upper quartile) | 0 (0/1.3) | 0 (0/0) | 0.410 |
| Extractions between 3 months and 5 years: median (lower/upper quartile) | 1.0 (0/1.3) | 0 (0/2.3) | 0.442 |
| Systemic antibiotic treatment adjunctive to SD Patients: [n]/frequency (%) | 8 (32%) | 10 (59%) | 0.085 |
| Surgical therapy between 3 months and 5 years | |||
| Patients: [n]/frequency (%) | 18 (72%) | 11 (65%) | 0.616 |
| Teeth per patient: median (lower/upper quartile) | 9.0 (1.5/13.0) | 5.0 (0/7.3) | 0.022 |
| SPT | |||
| Total number of visits: median (lower/upper quartile) | 10.0 (7.0/13.0) | 9.0 (4.3/10.5) | 0.142 |
| ≥ 3 visits per year: [n]/frequency (%) | 1 (4%) | 1 (6%) | 1.000 |
| 2 visits per year: [n]/frequency (%) | 2 (8%) | 2 (12%) | 1.000 |
| 1 visit per year: [n]/frequency (%) | 8 (32%) | 4 (24%) | 0.551 |