Chlorhexidine and doxycycline gel versus chip as adjuncts in oral hygiene among Indians

Ankur Singh Rajpoot; Hiroj Bagde; Sweety Thumar; Naina Pattnaik; Nairita Saha; Kanishq Patel; Dhaval Niranjan Mehta; Bibhukesh Panigrahi

doi:10.6026/973206300191342

Chlorhexidine and doxycycline gel versus chip as adjuncts in oral hygiene among Indians

Bioinformation. 2023 Dec 31;19(13):1342-1347. doi: 10.6026/973206300191342. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Ankur Singh Rajpoot¹, Hiroj Bagde², Sweety Thumar³, Naina Pattnaik⁴, Nairita Saha⁵, Kanishq Patel⁶, Dhaval Niranjan Mehta⁷, Bibhukesh Panigrahi⁸

Affiliations

¹ Department of Periodontology, RKDF Dental College and Research centre, Bhopal, M.P., India.
² Department of Periodontology, Chhattisgarh Dental College and Research Institute, Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India.
³ Associate Professor, Department of Endodontics and Conservative dentistry, Karnavati School of Dentistry, Karnavati University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India.
⁴ Department of Periodontology, Kalinga Institute of Dental Sciences, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
⁵ Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Burdwan Dental College & Hospital, Burdwan, West Bengal, India.
⁶ AMC dental College, Khokhra, Ahmedabad ,Gujarat,India, India.
⁷ Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Narsinbhai Patel Dental college and Hospital, Sankalchand Patel University, Visnagar, Gujarat, India.
⁸ Department of Periodontology, Awadh Dental & Hospital, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India.

Abstract

The effectiveness of newly released medications such as Chlorhexidine (CHX) chip, Doxycycline hyclate (DH) chip, CHX gel, DH chip as adjunct to scaling and root planing in the treatment of chronic periodontitis is important. 90 adult Indian patients with moderate chronic periodontitis were enlisted. It was observed that reduction in periodontal pocket depth (PPD) and increase in clinical attachment level (CAL) was seen in patients in CHX group as compared to DH treated study participants. It was observed that CHX and DH in gel form were more effective in improving periodontal health as compared to CHX and DH in chip form in this group of subjects.

Keywords: Chlorhexidine; chip; doxycycline; gel; oral hygiene.