Coconut Oil in Treatment of Periodontitis

Misr University for Science and Technology

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 1

Conditions: Periodontal Diseases

Treatments: Biological: topical application of coconut oil; Other: scaling and debridement

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06384638

coconut periodontitis

Details and patient eligibility

About

Virgin Coconut Oil (VCO) is a vegetable oil extracted from coconut fleshcontains unsaturated fatty acids in the form of oleic acid and linoleic acid and flavonoids which function as anti-inflammatory. Periodontitis is an inflammatory disease of the periodontal tissues with a high prevalence worldwide. The main etiology of plaque periodontitis is biofilm containing colonies of pathogenic microorganisms. The aim of the study is to evaluate and compare the effect of scaling and root debridement alone versus the use of topically applied coconut oil as adjunctive to scaling and root debridement in treatment of Stage II and III Grade B periodontitis.

Enrollment: 34 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 35 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients age group >35 years without ant systemic disease
• Willing to take part in the study. Patients with more than 16 natural teeth and have test teeth with both mesial and distal neighboring teeth with periodontitis with clinical attachment loss >3 mm and radiographic percentage of bone loss/age ranged between 0.25 to 1.
• Patients with no history of allergies to coconut

Exclusion criteria

• smokers
• pregnant
• lactating women
• Teeth with both endodontic-periodontal lesion.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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34 participants in 2 patient groups

interventional

Active Comparator group

Description:

coconut oil as topical application as adjunctive to scaling and root debridement

Treatment:

Biological: topical application of coconut oil

Other: scaling and debridement

control

Active Comparator group

Description:

scaling and root debridement

Treatment:

Other: scaling and debridement