Patient compliance levels attained in supportive periodontal therapy: A five-year period of study in a periodontal private practice in Johannesburg, South Africa

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The aim of this study was to investigate the degree of compliance achieved by patients who had active periodontal therapy and subsequently entered into a supportive periodontal therapy (SPT); and to determine if gender, age, socio-economic status, type of periodontal disease and the treatment modality had any influence on the level of compliance achieved.

 

A random selection of 304 clinical records of patients who had completed active periodontal treatment was used. At the end of the five-year study, only 20.72% of all patients belonging to our sample population had complete compliance.

 

Our results are in agreement with other studies confirming a poor complete compliance with supportive periodontal therapy. On the final analysis, the two age categories 41-60 and ≥ 61 were the only two categories that differed significantly (p=0.0172).

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