"Effectiveness of Emdogain® As an Adjunctive Therapy for Non-Surgical Periodontal Treatment- a Randomized, Controlled, Split-Mouth Design Multicenter Clinical Trial"

Phase 1: Screening After written informed consent has been obtained, the patient is entered in the screening and enrolment log and in the patient identification log and receives a patient identification number. An evaluation is then carried out by a periodontist with a dental hygienist to determine whether the patient meets the study inclusion criteria and none of the exclusion criteria and study specific information will be collected. For excluded patients, the reason(s) for exclusion shall be documented.

Phase 2: Treatment After providing informed consent, screening completion and after examination by a periodontist, study treatment will be performed only once the Plaque Index (PI) of each screened patient will be <20%. This means that randomization and the scaling phase (study treatment) will be only initiated when each individual patient was compliant with the oral hygiene instructions and the PI (as measured with Staining rondells red Directa, 4 surface plaque index, 1 rinsing 10 sec with 50 ml of water) was recorded to be <20%.

Randomization to test or control-quadrants will be performed using statistical software after full mouth scaling and root planing has taken place. Out of the four quadrants / patient, two quadrants will be randomised to be treated according to standard care with adjunctive Emdogain® FL. The remaining two quadrants will be treated as controls (standard care; no adjunctive Emdogain® FL).

Following randomization, root planing and scaling will be performed by a calibrated dental hygienist in all quadrants under local anaesthesia (with xylocaine adrenaline 2%). First, an ultrasonic scaler (EMS) will be used and then manual scaling with LM-curettes will be performed. The hygienist will scale each root surface until the root surface is judged to be free of tartar. As part of standard care, this decision is made by the calibrated dental hygienist based on tactile experience.

Pockets of 5mm to 9mm (PPD) will be treated in the study (both Test and Control treatment). Test treatment: Emdogain® FL will be added to standard treatment i. e. Test quadrants. PrefGel® will be applied on the root surface for 2 minutes, then rinsed away with sterile saline solution for 30 seconds. The surface will be lightly dried using gauze and airblow and then Emdogain® will be applied. The Emdogain® FL application will be performed by the dental hygienist under the supervision of a periodontist. Control treatment: pockets of 5mm to 9mm (PPD) will receive standard treatment (no addition of Emdogain® FL) i. e. Control quadrants.