Gabriela Cormos, Mona Ionas, Gabriela Bota, Laura Stef, Gheorghe Cornel Boitor, Alina Ormenisan, Marius Maris, Mihaela Cernusca  Mitariu<br>The Contribution of Salivary pH in Periodontal Health Assessment

Gabriela Cormos, Mona Ionas, Gabriela Bota, Laura Stef, Gheorghe Cornel Boitor, Alina Ormenisan, Marius Maris, Mihaela Cernusca Mitariu
The Contribution of Salivary pH in Periodontal Health Assessment

Abstract:

Intensive studies in last decades set that saliva shows a great potential as a diagnostic fluid and offers advantage over serum and other biological fluids by an economic and noninvasive collection method for monitoring of systemic health and disease progression. The purpose of this report is to provide further information regarding whether salivary pH is a feasible means of differentiating between stages of periodontal disease. This study involved a total of 111 patients who were divided into three equal groups (n=37): group A was represented by patients clinically healthy by this point of view, group B comprised patients with generalized chronic gingivitis and group C included patients with chronic periodontitis. Patients were examined and the plaque (PI) and gingival index (GI) were calculated, after which the unstimulated saliva was collected. The pH of saliva samples was determined and the results were interpreted using statistical technique for comparing the variance ANOVA. The most alkaline salivary pH was determined for the clinically healthy patients 7.3589 ± 0.08205, while the most acidic one is for the patients with generalized periodontitis (6.7256 ± 0.04377, for p-value [ 0.001). Our study showed that there are significant changes in pH between healthy patients and those with chronic gingivitis and generalized chronic periodontitis. Keywords: salivary pH, chronic gingivitis and generalized chronic periodontitis

Issue: 2016, Volume 67, Issue 9

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