Transgingival probing: a clinical gold standard for assessing gingival thickness.

Kloukos, Dimitrios; Koukos, George; Gkantidis, Nikolaos; Sculean, Anton; Katsaros, Christos; Stavropoulos, Andreas (2021). Transgingival probing: a clinical gold standard for assessing gingival thickness. Quintessence international Quintessenz Verlags-GmbH 10.3290/j.qi.b937015

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OBJECTIVE

Transgingival probing is often used in the clinic to assess gingival thickness. However, what is not completely known is how well this method represents the true value of soft tissue thickness. The aim of this study was to assess differences and variation in gingival thickness when measured with transgingival probing or scanned with an intraoral device.

METHOD AND MATERIALS

This ex vivo study evaluated gingival thickness on 20 porcine cadavers. Gingival thickness was assessed at both central and lateral mandibular incisors through transgingival probing with a standard metal periodontal probe and also using intraoral scanning, which was considered as the method providing the 'true value' of soft tissue thickness. Intra-examiner repeatability and method error were evaluated.

RESULTS

No evidence of systematic difference for any of the mandibular central or lateral incisors (mandibular right incisors: mean difference -0.17 to -0.01 mm, and mandibular left incisors: mean difference -0.11 to 0.04 mm) was observed between the periodontal probe and intraoral scanning methods. The absolute differences between the repeated measurements with intraoral scanning for each tooth type (n = 30) were calculated: the overall median was 0.089 mm and the interquartile range was 0.080 mm.

CONCLUSIONS

Transgingival probing with a standard metal periodontal probe for assessing gingival thickness is a reliable method, with values very close to the true gingival thickness, and it can thus be considered as the clinical gold standard.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > School of Dental Medicine > Department of Orthodontics
04 Faculty of Medicine > School of Dental Medicine > Department of Periodontology

UniBE Contributor:

Kloukos, Dimitrios (B), Gkantidis, Nikolaos, Sculean, Anton, Katsaros, Christos

Subjects:

600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

0033-6572

Publisher:

Quintessenz Verlags-GmbH

Language:

English

Submitter:

Renate Imhof-Etter

Date Deposited:

16 Feb 2021 15:37

Last Modified:

29 Mar 2023 23:37

Publisher DOI:

10.3290/j.qi.b937015

PubMed ID:

33533238

Uncontrolled Keywords:

periodontal scan tooth anatomy

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/152119

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/152119

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