Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: To Evaluate the Efficacy of Whole Turmeric Powder in Gingival Massaging and as an Adjunct to Scaling and Root Planing in Patients With Chronic Periodontitis
Brief Summary: Periodontal disease is considered as inflammatory, multifactorial, and threshold disease accompanied by destruction of periodontium and eventually the loss of natural teeth. Periodontal disease is highly prevalent dental disease especially, in developing and underdeveloped countries affecting more or less 80% of the population. For the prevention of this highly prevalent dental affliction, still no effective and practical preventive measures are available which can reduce its high prevalence rate though, lot of research work is going on.