To assess the microbial effects of mechanical debridement in adjunction with a mouthrinse on sites with peri-implant mucositis and gingivitis.

To investigate the relationship between cytokine profiles and ‘fast’ and ‘slow’ patterns of gingival inflammation development.

To evaluate the association between sleep duration and severe periodontitis in Japanese workers.

Studies have found that periodontal disease and tooth loss are associated with increased mortality; however, associations with cause-specific mortality and all-cause mortality within specific subgroups have not been thoroughly investigated.

To investigate whether periodontal disease or the response to periodontal treatment could influence the risk of future diabetes.

To compare connective tissue graft (CTG) with collagen matrix (CMX) in terms of changes over time in buccal soft tissue profile (BSP) when applied at single implant sites.

The present study aimed to investigate the salivary proteome profiles of pregnant women with gingivitis (PG) or without gingivitis (HP) and non-pregnant healthy controls (HC) by employing iTRAQ-based proteomics.

To investigate the associations between metabolic risk factors and periodontitis in young adults.

To clarify the role of systemic inflammation in the associations between hepatic inflammation and localized periodontitis, which were conflicting among races.

To evaluate the clinical efficacy of full-mouth scaling (FMS), full-mouth disinfection (FMD), and FMD with adjuvant erythritol air-polishing (FMDAP) compared to quadrant-wise debridement (Q-SRP) in patients with periodontitis stage III/IV.

To assess the accuracy of self-reported gingival bleeding on brushing (GBoB) for differentiating between periodontal health and disease and explore the optimal haemoglobin concentration that enables visual detection of GBoB.

To assess the effect of Schneiderian membrane (SM) perforation on bone formation by applying a particulate deproteinized bovine bone mineral (PBBM).

The present systematic review and meta-analysis assessed the strength of a reported association between elevated serum anti-periodontal bacterial antibody responses and coronary heart disease (CHD).

Periodontitis is a multifactorial condition linked to increased risk of systemic diseases. This study aimed to identify disease trajectories of people with periodontitis using the process mining technique as a heuristic approach.

Evaluation of survival of teeth with class III furcation involvement (FI) ≥5 years after active periodontal treatment (APT) and identification of prognostic factors.

Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) is an autologous blood-derived material that has been used to enhance bone regeneration. Clinical studies, however, reported inconsistent outcomes. This study aimed to assess the effect of changes in leucocyte and PRP (L-PRP) composition on bone defect healing.

To test whether or not the use of a short implant with a cantilever results in similar clinical and radiographic outcomes compared to two adjacent short implants with single tooth reconstructions.

The aim of this study was to explore general dental practitioners' (GDPs) attitude to periodontal furcation involvement (FI).

To investigate the prevalence of Non-carious Cervical Lesions (NCCLs) and the association with individual and tooth-related factors in adults from the 1982 Pelotas Birth Cohort.

To investigate the influence of chronological aging on periodontal regenerative therapy outcomes with enamel matrix derivative (EMD).

To investigate the associations of tobacco smoking and alcohol consumption with periodontitis using Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis.

To compare the outcomes after early (4 weeks post surgery) or late (6 months post surgery) orthodontic therapy (OT) following regenerative surgery of intra-bony defects (IDs).

To evaluate the association between low bone mineral density (BMD) and severe periodontitis at the end of the second decade of life.

To determine the association between periodontitis stage and grade with oral-health-related quality of life (OHRQoL).

To investigate whether obesity, central obesity, and weight gain are associated with periodontal pocketing.

To assess tooth loss (TL) in initially periodontally healthy/gingivitis (PHG) and periodontally compromised (PC) individuals during a 15- to 25-year follow-up in a specialist practice and to identify the factors influencing TL.

Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a critical liver disease showing potential progression to liver cirrhosis/cancer. Previously, we had reported that odontogenic infection of Porphyromonas gingivalis (P. gingivalis), a major periodontal pathogen, exacerbates fibrosis in NASH through the production of fibrosis mediators such as transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) and galectin-3. In this study

To compare the gene expression profiles and proliferation rates of fibroblasts from the oral lining and masticatory mucosae.

To analyse the efficacy of non surgical therapy (NST) in terms of pocket closure (PC) and changes in percentage and number of pockets..

Various studies have reported that young European women are more likely to develop early-onset periodontitis compared to men. A potential explanation for the observed variations in sex and age of disease onset is the natural genetic variation within the autosomal genomes. We hypothesized that genotype-by-sex (G × S) interactions contribute to the increased prevalence and severity.

Tooth-level prognostic systems can be used for treatment planning and risk assessment. This retrospective longitudinal study aimed to evaluate the prognostic performance of 10 different tooth-level risk assessment systems in terms of their ability to predict periodontal-related tooth loss (TLP).

To explore the relationship between long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) and immune response and to construct an immune-related competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) network in periodontitis.

To evaluate the salivary levels of myeloid-related markers in relation to periodontal disease and their potential screening capability, as well as the effects of periodontal treatment on these markers in periodontitis patients.

To investigate whether halitosis is associated with impaired oral-health-related quality of life (OHRQoL).

To clinically assess the aesthetics of smile and the possible influencing factors.

To assess the beneficial and adverse effects on the dental and periodontal issues of periodontal–orthodontic treatment of teeth with pathological tooth flaring, drifting, and elongation in patients with severe periodontitis.

To investigate and compare the effects of clinical and self-perceived oral conditions on oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) among young adults.

We aimed to clarify the association between deterioration of periodontal status and masticatory performance in a longitudinal follow-up study of a general urban population.

The aim of this study was to propose biomarker candidates for periodontitis via untargeted metabolomics analysis.

To identify invasive dental procedures as a risk factor for postoperative spinal infection (PSI) and evaluate the effectiveness of antibiotic prophylaxis.

To assess whether maintenance variables have a differential effect on tooth loss due to periodontitis (TLP) based on staging and grading.

To evaluate the risk factors / predictors of tooth loss in patients with periodontitis who underwent periodontal therapy and long-term periodontal maintenance (PM).

To clinically validate a self-reported questionnaire for periodontal disease and assess its accuracy for differentiating periodontal health and different stages of periodontitis.

To assess the diagnostic utility of an oral rinse active matrix metalloproteinase-8 (aMMP-8) point-of-care test (POCT) for differentiating periodontal health, gingivitis, as well as different stages and grades of periodontitis.

This study aimed to investigate the association between work patterns and periodontal disease.

The aim of this meta-analysis and Mendelian randomization (MR) study was to assess the association between short sleep and periodontal disease, including tooth loss and periodontitis.

Periodontitis and valvular heart disease (VHD) are common diseases. Both diseases are related to chronic inflammation and share many common risk factors. Previous periodontal studies had focused mainly on atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. This study aimed to determine whether periodontitis is associated with the development of VHD.

To investigate new bone (NB) formation by using bone-block substitute materials with/without recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 (rhBMP-2).

To characterize gingival metabolome in high-fat diet (HFD)-induced obesity in mice with/without periodontitis.

Pyroptosis and inflamm-aging have been newly identified to be involved in diabetic periodontitis. This study aimed to elucidate whether macrophage pyroptosis plays a role in periodontal inflamm-aging by impacting the senescence of fibroblasts, as well as the potential mechanism via NLR family CARD domain-containing protein 4 (NLRC4) phosphorylation.

To evaluate the outcomes of an apically repositioned flap (ARF) plus xenogeneic collagen matrix (XCM) in augmenting keratinized mucosa width (KMW) around dental implants when compared with ARF plus free gingival grafts (FGG).

To assess whether the use of deproteinized bovine bone mineral (DBBM) and native bilayer collagen membrane (NBCM) improved healing of peri-implantitis-related bone defects at 12 months.

The aim was to investigate the role of systemic inflammation in the relationship between periodontitis, edentulism, and all-cause mortality in a group of men in Northern Ireland aged 58–72 years.

SARS-CoV-2 RNA has been recovered from different sites in the human body, including the mouth. The present study aimed to investigate the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in the dental biofilm of symptomatic patients who tested positive in nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal (NASO/ORO) samples.

To investigate the association between dietary inflammatory potential and poor periodontal health.

Comparison of the clinical efficacy (digitally volumetric, aesthetic, patient-centred outcomes) of tunnel technique (TUN) with subepithelial connective tissue graft (CTG) versus coronally advanced flap (CAF) with enamel matrix derivate (EMD) 5 years after gingival recession therapy.

To report the 36-month follow-up of a trial comparing the adjunct of a xenogenic collagen matrix (CMX) or connective tissue graft (CTG) to coronally advanced flaps (CAF) for coverage of multiple adjacent recessions.