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The aim of this study was to examine patients with\n   chronic periodontitis in order to evaluate the efficacy of non-surgical\n   therapy and combination of amoxicillin and metronidazole compared with\n   cefixime, which has not been so far used for the treatment of this disease.\n   Methods. Adult patients with chronic periodontitis (n = 90) underwent\n   non-surgical periodontal treatment (zero-day) and then randomly divided into\n   three groups. The group I served as a control, the group II was additionally\n   treated with the combination of amoxicillin and metronidazole (for 7 days),\n   while the group III was treated with cefixime (also for 7 days). To assess\n   the condition of periodontium before and seven days after the therapy, four\n   clinical parameters were used: gingival index (GI), bleeding on probing\n   (BOP), probing depth (PD) and clinical attachment level (CAL). Results. On\n   the day 7 after the beginning of the therapy, we found that all the three\n   groups of patients had statistically significant clinical improvement of\n   three parameters: GI, BOP and PD, but not of the CAL. However, the\n   improvement of PD was only statistically, but not clinically significant. The\n   improvement in the control group of patients on the day 7 was 19% in BOP and\n   28% in GI; this improvement was statistically highly significant after the\n   addition of amoxicillin plus metronodazole (71% in BOP and 77% in GI) or\n   cefixime (62% in BOP and 82% in GI). Compared to the combination of\n   amoxicillin and metronidazole, cefixim was statistically significantly more\n   effective for GI (p &lt; 0.05), while for the other three clinical parameters\n   their effects were equal. Conclusion. The conjunction of amoxicillin plus\n   metronidazole or cefixime to the causal treatment of patients with chronic\n   periodontitis led to statistically significant improvement in efficacy in\n   relation to GI and BOP parameters, while cefixime was statistically\n   significantly more efficient than the combination of amoxicillin and\n   metronidazole for GI.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.2298\/vsp150326133d","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,11,18]],"date-time":"2015-11-18T14:40:13Z","timestamp":1447857613000},"page":"526-530","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Comparison of cefixime and amoxicillin plus metronidazole in the treatment of chronic periodontitis"],"prefix":"10.2298","volume":"73","author":[{"given":"Smiljka","family":"Dukic","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Military Medical Academy, Department of Periodontology and Oral Medicine, Belgrade"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Stevo","family":"Matijevic","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Military Medical Academy, Department of Oral Surgery, Belgrade + University of Defence, Faculty of Medicine of the Military Medical Academy, Belgrade"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Dragana","family":"Dakovic","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Military Medical Academy, Department of Periodontology and Oral Medicine, Belgrade + University of Defence, Faculty of Medicine of the Military Medical Academy, Belgrade"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tatjana","family":"Cutovic","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Military Medical Academy, Clinic for Dentistry, Department of Orthodontics, Belgrade + University of Defence, Faculty of Medicine of the Military Medical Academy, Belgrade"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1078","container-title":["Vojnosanitetski pregled","Military Medical and Pharmaceutical Journal of Serbia"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","deposited":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,29]],"date-time":"2023-05-29T11:15:49Z","timestamp":1685358949000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/doiserbia.nb.rs\/Article.aspx?ID=0042-84501500133D"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2016]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"6","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2016]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2298\/vsp150326133d","relation":{},"ISSN":["0042-8450","2406-0720"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0042-8450","type":"print"},{"value":"2406-0720","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2016]]}}}