Without trying to be insulting I have to say, “you must be joking or smoking crack to apply those references to this topic or suggest they are evidence of anything!”
First, you reference a study of periodontitis. The study has 16 patients. I suggest you ask someone at the NIH about the statistical significance of that or its applicability. You are talking about the oral cavity. It is a special, highly vascular, rapid healing tissue that often heals without scarring. The patients are already infected. Their mouths are “irrigated” and “debrieded” by a periodontist in an office. The study authors themselves state, “…subgingival irrigation with PVP-iodine without concomitant mechanical debridement might not improve microbiological and clinical variables in comparison with saline irrigation, at least not in sites with radiographic evidence of subgingival calculus.”
I find no stratification or accounting for confounding factors such as age, sex/gender, tobacco usage, diabetes, baseline dental hygiene, etc…(likely can not with only 16 people). I would be surprised if these 16 patients didn’t receive antibiotics during this study as well.
Second, you reference a study of wound dressings after “…nail matrix ablation using phenolization…” in 42 patients. As in the previous study, I suggest you ask someone at the NIH about the statistical significance of that or its applicability. Again, you are talking about a medically controlled experiment in a very small sample size, under supervision and clean conditions. They did not irrigate these wounds, rather laid an impregnated dressing over them. I find no stratification or accounting for confounding factors such as age, sex/gender, tobacco usage, diabetes, etc…(likely can not with only 42 people). What was the exclusion criteria???
There are to numerous websites providing frightening misinformation. Anyone can read through this thread and at least see a medically based perspective. If someone wants to gargle providone, so be it. If they want to start dumping chemicals onto their kids wound to avoid waiting in the ED, that’s unfortunate. In closing, you can do anything you want it doesn’t mean it is the right thing. If you do not have the appropriate irrigant, you shouldn’t just irrigate with the wrong one simply because it is available or because a dentist somewhere did it to 16 people in their office. Sometimes, you can’t do anything because you do not have the resources at hand. That doesn’t mean just do something to do something. By all means, continue to research this and find “disposable” publications to convince yourself you are right. I will not change your mind until you have a greater knowledge and understanding of what a good medical study is and what its applications/implications are. Until then, you will probably continue to buy whatever these 16-42 subjects studies are selling.
I am not going to argue this point anymore. Suffice it to say that periodontitis and chemically burned nail beds are not the same thing as a cut, scrape, or stab wound in the woods or at home for that matter.
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