Adjunctive Antimicrobial Photodynamic Therapy in Non-Surgical Periodontal Treatment: Clinical and Microbiological Insights from a Randomized Split-Mouth Trial.

Researchers compared scaling and root planing alone against the same treatment combined with antimicrobial photodynamic therapy in periodontitis patients, finding modest improvements in pocket depth and bleeding with the combined approach but no microbiological differences between groups after 90 days.

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