A U.K. company has designed a periodontal tool that it claims can alleviate the difficulty of achieving consistent measurements during periodontal tissue probing. Implantium has partnered with Iain ...

The probe uses the Diagnodent's laser fluorescence technology to differentiate between calculus and healthy tissue. Once the difference is detected, it makes a sound and displays a numerical readout.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Periodontal probing depth is a measure of periodontitis severity. We develop a Bayesian hierarchical model linking true pocket depth to both ...

When it comes to dental checkups, no one likes having their gums poked with the periodontal probe. Well, they may soon no longer have to, thanks to a gum-assessing toothbrush-shaped mini ultrasound ...

There were no significant differences found between people with and without HIV when it came to their periodontal profile. Immunosuppression is a big factor of HIV, with combination antiretroviral ...