Effects of nonsurgical periodontal therapy in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a prospective before and after study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

periodontal therapy has been suggested to have systemic effects. However, studies of periodontal therapy in rheumatoid arthritis patients have produced controversial results.

Aim

To compare the effects of nonsurgical periodontal therapy on biochemical markers of rheumatoid arthritis and periodontal parameters in patients with and without rheumatoid arthritis.

Methods

a prospective before-and-after study was conducted that included 21 participants without and 29 participants with rheumatoid arthritis. Periodontal parameters, Porphyromonas gingivalis detection, C-reactive protein, rheumatoid factor and anti-citrullinated protein antibodies were measured at baseline and three months after nonsurgical periodontal therapy and the changes were statisticall

SUBMITTER: Botero JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8973312 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul-Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature