Clinical Study

A Comparison of Chronic Periodontitis in HIV-Seropositive Subjects and the General Population in the Ga-Rankuwa Area, South Africa

Table 1

Epidemiological features and periodontal indexes of HIV-seropositive subjects with chronic periodontitis and control subjects with chronic periodontitis.

Presumably HIV-seronegative control subjects with chronic periodontitisHIV-seropositive subjects with chronic periodontitis

Females1420
Males 1610
Smokers53
Mean periodontal probing depths3.196 mm3.205 mm
 STDEV*0.580.32
Mean gingival recession1.53 mm1.66 mm
 STDEV*0.890.71
Number of gingival recession sites195202
 STDEV*5.115.46
Mean plaque index75.2%75.6%
 STDEV*23.620.16
Mean bleeding index50.3%47.3%
 STDEV*19.423.25

* STDEV: standard deviation.