Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator to Treat Deep Infrabony Defects: A New Flapless Minimally Invasive Approach

Table 2

Clinical variables before and after CUSA treatment.

	Treated defects ()		value
	Baseline post-FMUD (mean ± SD)	6-month reevaluation after CUSA treatment (mean ± SD)
PPD (mm)	8.6 ± 1.5	3.9 ± 1.4	<0.01
CAL (mm)	11.1 ± 3.0	6.8 ± 1.9	<0.01
REC (mm)	2.6 ± 2.1	2.8 ± 1.6	=0.41

FMUD, full-mouth ultrasonic debridement; CAL, clinical attachment loss; REC, recessions; PPD, probing pocket depth. The last column shows the value of the statistical analysis comparing baseline and reevaluation data (statistically significant: ).