Abstract
The purpose of this study was undertaken to diagnostic and prognostic examination in the clinical routine procedures.
The thermistor probe (digital mutti-themistor 2752, Yokokawa Co, Ltd) was used for the measurment of gingival sulcus tempreature.
The 17 out paitientes were selected, and following parameters were recorded, in sequence, gingival index, plaque index, gingival bleeding index and probing depth.
The tempreature was measured at the center of facial and lingual postion in the first molar and incisor.
The correlation between gingival sulcus tempreature and plaque index was showed no signficant difference.
That tendency also showed on the gingival index and probing depth, but the correlation between the gingival sulcus temperature and gingivl bleeding index showed a significant difference. (p<0.01)
