EFFECTIVENESS OF SANHUANG JIANCHI DECOCTION COMBINED WITH CONVENTIONAL WESTERN MEDICINE THERAPY FOR CHRONIC PERIODONTITIS AND ITS EFFECT ON ADVERSE REACTIONS INCIDENCE AND RECURRENCE

Haiying Wang, Zhengyu Yao, Yongbo Gao, Cong Wang, Guiling Wang, Tao Hong^*

Department of Stomatology, Zhejiang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Hangzhou, 310003, Zhejiang Province, China

Objective: To explore the effectiveness of Sanhuang Jianchi decoction combined with conventional western medicine therapy in treating chronic periodontitis and analysis its effect on adverse reactions incidence and recurrence. 

Methods: 96 patients with chronic periodontitis who met the study standards and admitted to our hospital from June 2019 to December 2020 were selected as the research object and randomly divided into the control group and the experimental group, with 48 cases in each group. The routine western medicine therapy was given to the control group and the Sanhuang Jianchi decoction was given on this basis to the experimental group to evaluate the efficacy of the two groups after treatment. 

Results: The treatment effect of the experimental group was significantly better than that of the control group, with a significant difference; compared with the control group, the experimental group obtained obviously lower scores on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) symptoms including gingiva bleeding, bleeding from gum, dry mouth, halitosis, constipation and yellowish urine; the inflammatory factor levels, probe depth (PD) values, attachment loss (AL) values and bleeding index (BI) values after treatment of patients in the two groups were significantly lower than those before treatment, and those of the experimental group were significantly lower than those of the control group; no adverse reactions occurred in patients of both groups during treatment, and the recurrence rate in the control group at 3 months of follow-up was significantly higher than that in the experimental group (P<0.05), which was statistically significant. 

Conclusion: Conventional western medicine therapy combined with Sanhuang Jianchi decoction has a good effect in treating chronic periodontitis, which can effectively improve the adverse clinical symptoms in patients and suppress the inflammatory reactions in the gingival crevicular fluid; in addition, no adverse reactions occur during treatment and the recurrence rate is low, indicating that it is more safe.