BACKGROUND Host responses to periodontal disease include the production of different enzymes that are released by stromal, epithelial or inflammatory cells. There are important enzymes associated with cell injury and cell death like: aspartate and alanine aminotransferase (AST, ALT), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), creatine kinase (CK), alkaline and acidic phosphatase (ALP, ACP), gama glutamyl tra...

BACKGROUND Periodontal disease has been associated with a number of systemic diseases. A high prevalence of periodontitis among individuals with chronic kidney diseases and end-stage renal disease has been reported. However, no association between periodontal diseases and glomerulonephritis has previously been investigated. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the severity and possib...

The aim of this cohort study was to determine whether periodontitis and gingivitis are associated with impaired salivary antioxidant status and increased oxidative injury. One hundred and twenty-nine patients attending a routine dental check-up were recruited for the study. Periodontal disease status was characterized using the Community Periodontal Index of Treatment Needs (CPITN) system. Tota...

OBJECTIVES Due to the lack of pregnant based oral health studies in our country, we conducted this study to evaluate periodontal status among females with gestational diabetes in Ohud Hospital, Al Madinah Al-Munwarrah and to assess its effect on insulin sensitivity and lipid metabolism. METHODS This cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted from January 2008 till June 2008. The sample i...

Research has shown that overhanging dental restorations and subgingival margin placement play an important role in providing an ecologic niche for periodontal pathogens. Periodontal attachment loss and inflammation associated with overhanging restorations were reported extensively in the literature. A total of 15 overhanging amalgam restorations were selected and the plaque index (PI), Gingival...

Objective: The aim of this study was to describe the periodontal conditions and to analyze the association between the wearing of fixed or removable partial dentures and periodontal disease in a representative adult rural population in Jaipur. Materials and methods: Cross-sectional study of a representative sample comprising 200 individual aged 30-60 years. Data were collected by clinical exami...

background: gingival overgrowth is a common side-effect of amlodipine regimen on the oral cavity. there is controversy regarding the cause and effect relationship of periodontal health and drug induced gingival overgrowth. therefore, this study was conducted to investigate and to assess the relationship between the periodontal health and the onset and severity of gingival overgrowth in hyperten...

background: periodontitis is common in adults and cardiovascular diseases (cvd) are the most common cause of adult death in the world. this study aimed to investigate the relationship between cvd and periodontitis. methods: sixty patients with myocardial infarction (mi) as case and 63 subjects with periodontitis without mi as control were studied. periodontitis was assessed according to ramfjor...