Green Tea and Reduced Probing Pocket Depth

• Evaluation of the clinical efficacy of green tea extract gel as local drug delivery for periodontitis.

  • 2025-06-20
  • Clinical Trial
  • World journal of experimental medicine 15(2)
  • • Santhiya Rengaraj
    • Sri Sivashankari Thilagar
    • Pradeep Kumar Yadalam
    • Priyanka Pampani
    • Ebenezer Mani
    • Carlos M Ardila

  • PubMed: 40546664
  • DOI: 10.5493/wjem.v15.i2.105636

  1 Insight on

  • Reduced Probing Pocket Depth

  • Moderate evidence
  • Clinical

  The PPD decreased significantly from baseline to one month in both groups. However, the green tea extract gel group exhibited superior outcomes to the ornidazole gel group, with a mean difference in PPD of 0.28 ± 0.78 mm at one month (P < 0.007).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes