Efficacy of Coconut Oil Therapy as supplementary to Scaling in Diabetic patients with Gum Disease.
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- CONTROLLED DIABETIC PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC GINGIVITIS IN THE AGE GROUP OF 25-70 YEARS WITH HbA1c LEVELS LESS THAN 7
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2018/03/012689
- Lead Sponsor
- Dr Shraddha Kode
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
1.Age group between 25-70 years.
2.Patients with controlled diabetes (on oral hypoglycemic drugs) with glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA1c) levels < 7
3.Patients with chronic gingivitis
4.Patients with minimum of 20 teeth.
5.Patients who have not received any type of periodontal therapy for the past 6 months
1.Patients on insulin therapy
2.Patients suffering from any other systemic disease or with compromised immune system.
3.Patients with a known history of drug allergy
4.Patients taking any drug known to cause gingival enlargement
5.Patients taking any immuno-suppressive drugs like corticosteroids.
6.Pregnant and/or lactating mothers.
7.Patients with any bleeding disorders.
8.Patients on anticoagulant therapy.
9.Patients with smoking and tobacco chewing habits.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Gingival index (G.I.) (Loe and Silness, 1963) <br/ ><br>Timepoint: BASELINE AND 15DAYS POST TREATMENT
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Plaque index (P.I.) (Tureskey-Gilmore-Glickman Modification Of Quigley Hein, 1970)Timepoint: BASELINE AND 15DAYS POST TREATMENT