%0 Journal Article %T Twenty Years of Full-Mouth Disinfection: The Past, the Present and the Future %A Ange D¨¦sir¨¦ Pockpa %A Assem Soueidan %A Nadin Th¨¦r¨¨se Coulibaly %A Pauline Louis %A Xavier Struillou %A Zahi Badran %J Archive of "The Open Dentistry Journal". %D 2018 %R 10.2174/1874210601812010435 %X Conventional periodontal treatment, performed quadrant by quadrant in multiple visits, was re-evaluated in the early 1990s when the full-mouth disinfection concept was introduced. Over the years, several modifications to the full-mouth disinfection approach have been suggested %K Periodontal disease %K Periodontal treatment %K Scaling and root planing %K Full-mouth disinfection %K Chlorhexidine %K Antibiotics or probiotics %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5997853/