Gene therapy is a field of Biomedicine. With the advent of gene therapy in dentistry, significant progress has been made in the control of periodontal diseases and reconstruction of dento-alveolar apparatus.Implementation in periodontics include:-As a mode of tissue engineering with three approaches: cell, protein-based and gene delivery approach.-Genetic approach to Biofilm Antibiotic Resistan...

Purpose: To establish a digital assessment method for changes in gingiva morphology following initial periodontal therapy.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of conventional periodontal therapy on serum C-reactive protein (CRP) level and periodontal status in obese and normal-weight chronic periodontitis patients. METHODS This is a controlled clinical trial conducted at the King Abdulaziz University Faculty of Dentistry, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia between December 2009 and March 2011. A total of 40 women af...

Objectives: Periodontitis is associated with increased in inflammatory markers, especially cytokines and these inflammatory markers in turn have been observed in individuals with various systemic diseases. Periodontal therapy has also been believed to induce bacteremia and is thought to be a risk factor for distant site infections such as infective endocarditis in susceptible individuals. There...

BACKGROUND Although severe oral opportunistic infections decreased with the implementation of highly active antiretroviral therapy, periodontitis is still a commonly described problem in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The objective of the present investigation was to determine possible differences in periodontal parameters between antiretroviral treated and untreated...

Background: Chronic renal failure patients undergoing hemodialysis are susceptible to periodontal diseases due to systemic complications of the disease and using different drugs. The present study investigated the periodontal status of patient’s who underwent hemodialysis, in Babol, northern Iran. Methods: One-hundred-fifteen hemodialysis patients (63 males, 52 females) with the mean age of 47...

background: the purpose of this study was to determine the salivary levels of alkaline phosphatase (alp) and acid phosphatase (acp) activities in patients with periodontal disease and to evaluate the use of these enzymes as biochemical markers for periodontal tissue damage. materials and methods: in this prospective analytical study, we examined the activities of salivary alp and acp in patient...