Clinical trial NCT02907528: Furcation Therapy With Enamel Matrix Derivative
Official title: Furcation Therapy With Enamel Matrix Derivative: Effects on the Subgingival Microbiome
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Chronic Periodontitis
Lead sponsor: Ohio State University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: University of Campinas, Brazil
First posted: 2016-09-20
Enrollment: 39
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 21
Maximum age (years): 75
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: Objective: To clinically evaluate mandibular furcation treated with Beta tricalcium phosphate/hydroxyapatite (βTCP/HA) isolated or combined with enamel matrix derivative (EMD + βTCP/HA) and EMD alone.

Material and Methods: 39 patients, presenting at least one mandibular class II furcation defect, probing pocket depth (PPD) ≥ 4 mm and bleeding on probing, were included. The defects were assigned to the βTCP/HA group 1 (n = 13); open-flap debridement (OFD) + βTCP/HA filling; βTCP/HA + EMD group 2 (n = 13); OFD + βTCP/HA + EMD filling; and EMD group 3 (n = 13) OFD + EMD filling. Plaque (PI) and gingival index (GI), PPD, relative gingival margin position (RGMP), vertical and horizontal attachment level (RVCAL and RHCAL), and furcation diagnosis were evaluated at baseline, 6 and 12 months.

Detailed description: Although enamel matrix derivative (EMD) has been used to promote periodontal regeneration, little is known of its effect on the microbiome. Therefore, this investigation aimed to identify the changes in periodontal microbiome following treatment with EMD using a deep-sequencing approach. Thirty-nine patients having mandibular class II buccal furcation defects were randomized to beta-tricalcium-phosphate/hydroxyapatite graft (BONE group), EMD+BONE or EMD alone. Plaque was collected from furcation defects at baseline, 3 and 6 months post-treatment. Bacterial DNA was analyzed using terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (t-RFLP) and 16S pyrotag sequencing. 169,000 classifiable sequences were compared to HOMD using the QIIME and PhyloToAST pipelines. Statistical comparisons were made using parametric tests. At baseline, a total of 422 species were identified from the 39 defects, belonging to Fusobacterium, Pseudomonas, Streptococcus, Filifactor and Parvimonas. All three regenerative procedures predictably altered the disease-associated microbiome, with a restitution of health-compatible species. However, EMD and BONE+EMD groups demonstrated more long-term reductions in higher number of species than in BONE group (p\<0.05), especially disease-associated species e.g. Selenomonas noxia, F.alocis, and Fusobacterium. EMD may promote periodontal regeneration by predictably altering a dysbiotic subgingival microbiome, decreasing pathogen richness and increasing commensal abundance.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Untreated ChronicPeriodontitis

Exclusion Criteria:

* Diabetes Pregnancy Current Smoking

Primary outcomes:
measure: Shifts in the subgingival microbiome at 3 and 6 months in response to the interventions
timeFrame: 6 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
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Study officials:
affiliation: Ohio State University
name: purnima Kumar
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Queiroz LA, Casarin RCV, Dabdoub SM, Tatakis DN, Sallum EA, Kumar PS. Furcation Therapy With Enamel Matrix Derivative: Effects on the Subgingival Microbiome. J Periodontol. 2017 Jul;88(7):617-625. doi: 10.1902/jop.2017.160542. Epub 2017 Mar 17.