Professional Dental Cleaning
Professional Dental Cleaning: Who Really Benefits?
Two successive Cochrane reviews show: routine professional dental cleaning in periodontally stable adults achieves no clinically relevant difference in gingivitis, probing depths, or quality of life. The benefit is limited to patients with gingivitis and inadequate home oral hygiene — and only in combination with OHI.
Evidence Summary Box
Evidence level: A (routine cleaning) / B (PMPR+OHI)
Strength of conclusion: strong (routine) / moderate (PMPR+OHI)
Main direction: neutral (routine) / conditional benefit (PMPR+OHI)
Assessment status: fully assessed
Evaluated studies: 7 (5 active anchors, 1 context SR, 1 commentary)
Quality mix: 6 primary support / 8 with reservation / 0 critical
Risk of bias: low to moderate
CoI risk: low
Article type: Intervention
Source integrity: visibly clean
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