NCT01906450

STUDY ON THE EFFECTS OF PERIODONTAL TREATMENT ALONG WITH THE USE OF ANTIBIOTICS OVER HIGH SENSITIVE C-REACTIVE PROTEIN. RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL.

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 75 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidad del Valle, Colombia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Human periodontitis is a group of highly prevalent oral inflammatory diseases and infections with relatively easy treatment and preventive features. The present study is aimed to determine if treating human individuals with chronic periodontitis, along with the use of antibiotics, reduces cardiovascular risk marker (HsPCR) and also intends to identify if severity of periodontitis could be associated with a raise of systemic inflammatory biomarkers on baseline.

Conditions

• Chronic Periodontitis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Scaling and root planing plus Azithromycin	Single session of scaling and root planning using ultrasonic device. Azithromycin tablets 500mg, 1 tablet every 24 hours for 5 days
DRUG	Scaling and root planing plus placebo	Single session of scaling and root planning placebo tablets 500mg, 1 tablet every 24 hours for 3 days

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-05-01
• Primary completion: 2013-09-01
• Completion: 2014-01-01
• First posted: 2013-07-24
• Last updated: 2013-07-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Colombia