Periodontal treatment (scaling and root planing, alone or with antimicrobials) vs usual care or no treatment: Gingival index (GI)
Periodontal therapy (scaling and root planing, with or without… led to lower gingival index (GI) compared with no active intervention/usual care; GRADE not reported.
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Periodontal therapy (scaling and root planing, with or without antimicrobials) vs No active intervention/usual care Gingival index (GI) · People with diabetes mellitus (type 1 or type 2, mostly type 2) and periodontitis, at least 16 years of age · 3-4 months Periodontal therapy (scaling and root planing, with or without… led to lower gingival index (GI) compared with no active intervention/usual care; GRADE not reported. Treatment of periodontitis for glycaemic control in people with diabetes mellitus (2015) · Cochrane All outcomesearlier version CD004714.PUB3, superseded | MD -0.54 [-0.80, -0.27] | 4 studies | GRADE not reported |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Treatment of periodontitis for glycaemic control in people with diabetes mellitus 2022 · Cochrane All outcomes | 2021-09 | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.