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Root Planing Root planing is the process of debriding the root surface of a tooth with a curette. Plaque and calculus are removed from both above and below the gum tissue from the tooth. It is a more deliberate and more delicately executed procedure than scaling and requires the administration of local anesthetic in most instances. At present it constitutes the primary mode of initial therapy in periodontics, and evidence suggests that disease progression will continue without root planing, even with effective oral hygiene. The curette is a spoon-shaped instrument well suited to cleaning and smoothing root surfaces. Deposits of calculus, hard deposit that forms by mineralization of dental plaque, on root surfaces are frequently embedded in cemental irregularities. Calculus found below the gum tissue is porous and harbors bacteria and endotoxin and therefore should be removed completely. When dentin is exposed, plaque bacteria may invade dentinal tubules. Therefore scaling alone is insufficient to remove them, and a portion of the root surface must be removed to eliminate these deposits. . |
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