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What is the influence of tonsillectomy on the level of periodontal pathogens on the tongue dorsum and in periodontal pockets

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Published Online: 2018-04-06

Published Print: 2018-12

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Diener, V. N.

Gay, A.

Soyka, M. B.

Attin, T.

Schmidlin, P. R.

Sahrmann, P. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5568-2529
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Received: 12 December 2017

Accepted: 20 March 2018

First Online: 6 April 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Approval for this clinical study was obtained from the Ethical committee of Zurich before the clinical investigations (17. October 2013 Reference number KEK-ZH-Nr.2013–0419). All participating patients were aware about the substance, process and objective of this study. They were informed minimum 24 h before the examination by their ENT-specialist and asked for their will to participate. If so, written information, approved by the Ethical committee of Zurich, was committed. The day of the examination, possible questions about the trial were clarified by the dental examiner and after that patients gave their written consent. All participants in this study were full age and judicious.All study-related examinations were performed in accordance to the declaration of Helsinki as revised in 2000 [].

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