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PREVENTING GUM DISEASEGum disease "behaves like a chronic type of inflammatory disease," explains Kenneth Kornman, a professor of periodontics at the University of Texas in San Antonio. One of the most promising of the new therapies, first available in Italy, is a product called Actisite.It looks something like dental floss but actually consists of an organic fiber coated wih the antibiotic teracycline. Packed deep in the gums, the medicinal theread remains in palce for seven to ten days. Actisite delivers 300 times as much tetracycline to the crevice where the thread is placed as a gram's worth of pills would . Another therapy consists of a gel that contains an antimicrobial called metronidazole. Marketed in Denmark, and now available in Sweden, Ireland and Britain, the gel can be squirted into spaces be tween teeth and gums. Preliminary results indicate that the combination treatment saved 94% of teeth scheduled for surgery, and the teeth remained disease-free throughout a 3-year follow-up period . --> return to menu / back ... (click) --> return to top of the page (click) |
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