A U.K. company has designed a periodontal tool that it claims can alleviate the difficulty of achieving consistent measurements during periodontal tissue probing. Implantium has partnered with Iain ...

KaVo Dental has introduced a new perio probe for its Diagnodent caries detector (in both pen and classic versions). Just remove the tip and snap on the perio probe. The probe uses the Diagnodent's ...

Dear Dr. Reitz: My dentist said I have gum disease with numbers of 5 and 6. Do you give numbers for all cases, and what do the numbers indicate? – Octavia, Reading Dear Octavia: I suspect the numbers ...

When it comes to dental checkups, no one likes having their gums poked with the periodontal probe. Well, they may soon no longer have to, thanks to a gum-assessing toothbrush-shaped mini ultrasound ...

The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, PubMed Medline and Latin American and Caribbean Health Science literature databases were searched, and searches made by hand of identified papers, ...

Perio-Imaging Inc. of Delaware/>/> was formed in 2004 to launch an ultrasonographic periodontal probe. In this short video clip, the company’s vice president and medical director, Fred Lane, describes ...

You know when you go to the dentist, and they shove that little measuring-stick-like tool up between each of your teeth and the overlapping gum tissue? That tool is known as a periodontal probe, and ...

When visiting the dentist, you might remember being poked and prodded by a thin metal instrument to check your teeth and gums. This technique, called periodontal probing, is used to look for signs of ...