The use of probiotics as adjuvant therapy of periodontal treatment: a systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical trials

L Hardan, R Bourgi, CE Cuevas-Suárez… - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
For many years, the use of probiotics in periodontitis treatment was reflected in their abilities
to control the immune response of the host to the presence of pathogenic microorganisms …

Use of the deep learning approach to measure alveolar bone level

CT Lee, T Kabir, J Nelson, S Sheng… - Journal of clinical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The goal was to use a deep convolutional neural network to measure the radiographic
alveolar bone level to aid periodontal diagnosis. Materials and Methods A deep learning …

Associations between periodontitis and COPD: an artificial intelligence-based analysis of NHANES III

A Vollmer, M Vollmer, G Lang, A Straub… - Journal of clinical …, 2022 - mdpi.com
A number of cross-sectional epidemiological studies suggest that poor oral health is
associated with respiratory diseases. However, the number of cases within the studies was …

Association between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and periodontal disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

M Yang, R Peng, X Li, J Peng, L Liu, L Chen - BMJ open, 2023 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives Studies have suggested contradictory results on the relationship between chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and periodontal disease (PD). The aim of this study …

Photoacoustic imaging of posterior periodontal pocket using a commercial hockey-stick transducer

L Fu, C Ling, Z **, J Luo… - Journal of …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Significance: Photoacoustic imaging has shown advantages over the periodontal probing
method in measuring the periodontal probing depth, but the large size of conventional …

The effect direction should be taken into account when assessing small-study effects

Z Meng, C Wu, L Lin - Journal of Evidence-Based Dental Practice, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective Studies with statistically significant results are frequently more likely to be
published than those with non-significant results. This phenomenon leads to publication …

[HTML][HTML] Posterior photoacoustic/ultrasound imaging of the periodontal pocket with a compact intraoral transducer

L Fu, R Khazaeinezhad, A Hariri, B Qi, C Chen… - Photoacoustics, 2022 - Elsevier
Periodontitis is a public issue and imaging periodontal pocket is important to evaluate
periodontitis. Regular linear transducers have limitations in imaging the posterior teeth due …

Association of the unstimulated whole salivary cytokine il-1β levels with initial, moderate and severe periodontitis. A case control study

MM Majeed, I Ahmed, T Roome, Y Alali… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Periodontitis (P) is a highly prevalent inflammatory disease of the oral cavity. The objective
of the study was to evaluate the stages of pro-inflammatory cytokine IL-1β in initial, moderate …

Relationship between phenotypic and genotypic resistance of subgingival biofilm samples in patients with periodontitis

M Sparbrod, Y Gager, AK Koehler, H Jentsch… - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The phenotypic expression of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) can hamper the use of
antibiotics as adjuncts to subgingival instrumentation in the treatment of periodontitis …

A pilot clinical and radiographic study on the association between periodontitis and serious COVID‐19 infection

P Gardelis, A Zekeridou, N Suh… - Clinical and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background During the pandemic of COVID‐19, the scientific community tried to identify the
risk factors that aggravate the viral infection. Oral health and specifically periodontitis have …