Studies on the Present State of Periodontal Surgery in Our Clinic: Compared to Five Years Ago

This study was carried out to know the states of cases which had been done periodontal surgery from January, 1990 to December, 1991 in our clinic and to compare these results with those of 5 years ago. The following results were obtained. 1. The operation cases were 176 (107 males and 69 females) and the average age of the patient was 47.3 years. 2. The progressive stages of periodontitis at the time of surgery were as follows. severe: 63.5%, moderate: 36.6%, mild: 0%. 3. The main purpose for surgery was elimination of periodontal pockets (65.1% of cases), followed by improvement of furcation involvements . 4. As regards the classification of these opera tions, there were 159 flap operation cases, 57 periodontal osseous surgery cases and 38 furcation involvement cases. 5. Before these operations, 85.5% of the cases had been done reevaluation. According to the results of the preoperative evaluation, the plaque control record was under 20% in 58.6% of the whole cases and the bleeding index was under 20% in 74.2% of the whole cases. 6. The flap operation had been done mainly to the 5 mm pocket depth cases. There were remaining calculus in deeper pockets.