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. 2017 Dec 14;8:1055. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2017.01055

Table 2.

Interventional studies analyzing the effect of periodontitis on oxidative stress.

Treatment Treatment duration Sample size Comorbidity Sample type Results References
NST with vitamin C (2,000 mg/day) 1 month 30 ChP patients 30 healthy controls None Plasma ↓ TAC in ChP patients; NST lead to ↑ TAC in ChP patients; No effect of vitamin C Abou Sulaiman and Shehadeh, 2010
NST with lycopene (8 mg/day) 2 month 20 ChP patients None Serum ↓ MDA and clinical parameters after therapy Ambati et al., 2017
Oral hygiene education with insulin treatment for T1DM 3 months 32 T1DM patients at diagnosis 18 SH children with gingivitis 18 SH and PH children T1DM Serum Saliva GCF ↑ serum, salivary and GCF OSI in T1DM group; ↓ after treatment Aral et al., 2017
NST with lycopene (8 mg/day) 42 ChP patients None Plasma Saliva ↑ IL-1ss, UA and clinical parameters after treatment Arora et al., 2013
NST 14 days 13 ChP patients with FMF 15 ChP SH patients 14 PH patients with FMF 15 PH and SH controls Familial Mediterranean fever Serum GCF ↓ periodontal clinical markers after treatment; ↓ TOS in GCF in FMF patients with ChP; no difference in serum TOS and OSI Bostanci et al., 2014
ST with antioxidant gel (2mg lycopene) 1 week 31 ChP patients None GCF ↓ 8-OHdG after treatment, as well as periodontal clinical markers Chandra et al., 2013
NST 2 months 35 ChP patients 32 healthy controls None Plasma GCF ↓ TAC in GCF in ChP; ↑ after treatment; (plasma TAC no difference at baseline between groups, no change after treatment) Chapple et al., 2007a
NST 4 h 145 ChP patients (14 with therapy) 56 healthy controls None Serum Patients with severe periodontitis ↑ROM ↓ TAC; ↑ ROM after treatment D'Aiuto et al., 2010
NST with fluorescence-controlled Er:YAG laser radiation Laser therapy applied 1 day after NST 30 ChP patients None GCF no difference between with/without laser treatment in TAC and clinical parameters; IL-1beta and ↑ TNF-alpha after NST only; ↓ after NST with laser Dominguez et al., 2010
NST 30 ChP patients 30 healthy controls Smokers/non-smokers Serum Saliva ↑ MDA in smoking ChP patients; ↑ GPx in ChP groups; ↓ TAC in ChP groups; ↓ MDA and GPx after therapy Guentsch et al., 2008
NST 14 days 47 (24 / 23) ChP patients 46 (23/23) healthy controls Smokers/non-smokers Serum Saliva GCF ↑ salivary 8-OHdG and GPx in ChP; ↑ 4-HNE in GCF in ChP smokers; ↓ 8-OHdG after therapy in saliva and GCF Hendek et al., 2015
NST 7 ChP patients 7 healthy controls None Saliva ↑ TAC and ↓ SOD activity in ChP; ↓ TAC, SOD activity immediately after NST Kim et al., 2010
NST 60 moderate to severe periodontitis patients with T2DM T2DM Serum No effect of NST on d-8-iso, MMP-2, MMP-9 and hsCRP Koromantzos et al., 2012
NST; NST with antioxidants (6 mg/day; lycopene, zinc, and selenium) or antioxidants only 3 doses in 2 weeks 30 ChP patients 30 gingivitis patients 10 healthy controls None Saliva ↓ UA in ChP patients; antioxidant treatment ↑ UA Mathur et al., 2013
Tai Chi (5 days a week, 60 min) 6 months 71 sedentary patients with periodontitis Old age Saliva ↑ TAC, SOD after therapy Mendoza-Núñez et al., 2014
NST and surgical treatment Surgical treatment 6 weeks after NST 12 AgP patients None Serum Plasma Periodontitis severity associated with LDL concentrations; No changes in lipid profile after treatment; No difference in GSH and lipid hyperoxide after therapy Nibali et al., 2015
NST or oral hygiene instructions 2 visits within 7 days 42 ChP patients 21 healthy controls None Saliva NST lead to ↑ TAC, ALB, UA, GPx and ↓ SOD; (no effect of oral hygiene instructed therapy was found) Novakovic et al., 2014
NST 25 severe ChP patients 26 healthy controls None Serum Saliva Salivary 8-OHdG ↑ before treatment in ChP group; ↓ after NST ↑ salivary MDA and serum 4-HNE in ChP patients; NST had no effect Onder et al., 2017
NST with Coenzyme Q10; NST with tea tree oil gel or placebo 7 days 15 ChP patients (moderate to severe) None - Both antioxidant treatment procedures effective in ↓ clinical markers of ChP (PI, GI, PPD and CAL) Raut and Sethi, 2016
NST and oral hygiene instructions 2–4 months 29 ChP patients 20 healthy controls None Saliva ↑ 8-OHdG in ChP patients before therapy; ↓ 8-OHdG and P. gingivalis after treatment, as well as periodontal clinical markers Sawamoto et al., 2005
NST 8 ChP patients 8 healthy controls None Platelet suspension ↓ periodontal clinical parameters and CRP after therapy, as well as ↑ cGMP and SOD activity Siqueira et al., 2013
Surgical treatment with taurine (500 mg/day) 15 days 10 ChP patients None Plasma Gingival tissue ↓ TBARS, GPx in plasma and gingival tissue; ↑ GSH and ↓ periodontal clinical parameters after therapy Sree and Sethupathy, 2014
NST 78 ChP patients 17 healthy controls None Saliva ↑ 8-OHdG in ChP patients before therapy; ↓ 8-OHdG and periodontal clinical markers after therapy Takane et al., 2002
NST 22 ChP patients 22 healthy controls None Plasma ↑ oxidative index, oxidized LDL and CRP in ChP; ↓ of these parameters after treatment Tamaki et al., 2011
NST 25 ChP patients 25 patients with gingivitis 25 healthy controls None Serum ↓ serum TAC and CAT in both groups of patients; TAC ↑ in ChP patients after therapy (no treatment effect on CAT) Thomas et al., 2014
NST 4 visits within 14 days 30 (15/15) ChP patients 10 healthy controls Smokers/non-smokers GCF ↑ IL-1beta in ChP patients; ↓ IL-1beta after NST irrespective of smoking; (no difference in TAC and TOS before or after treatment between groups) Toker et al., 2012
NST 2 weeks 25 ChP patients with MS 25 ChP SH patients Metabolic syndrome Serum Saliva TOS and OSI showed no difference between groups in serum after therapy; ↑ TAC of MS ChP patients before treatment, but ↓ after therapy in serum; ↓ OSI and ↑ TAC in both groups after treatment in saliva Torumtay et al., 2016
NST Once per week/1 month 22 ChP patients None Saliva ↑ SOD in patients with low dental visits after NST; ↑ TAC in patients with regular dental visits after therapy Yang et al., 2014
NST with dietary intervention 3 visits/6 months 37 ChP patients (19 without intervention; 18 with intervention) None Plasma Saliva ↑ TAC after dietary intervention in plasma; no differences in periodontal clinical parameters after dietary intervention Zare Javid et al., 2014

ChP, chronic periodontitis; SH, systematically healthy; PH, periodontal healthy; NST, non-surgical treatment; ST, surgical treatment; T1DM, type 1 diabetes mellitus; T2DM, type 2 diabetes mellitus; FMF, familial Mediterranean fever; MS, metabolic syndrome; GCF, gingival crevicular fluid; TAC, total antioxidant capacity; TBARS, thiobarbituric acid reacting substances; 8-HOdG, 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine; GPx, glutathione peroxidase; GSH, reduced glutathione; MDA, malondialdehyde; TOS, total oxidant status; SOD, superoxid dismutase; OSI, oxidative stress index; IL-1ss, salivary interleukin 1beta; ROM, reactive oxygen metabolites; 4-HNE, 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal; hsCRP, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein; d-8-iso, d−8-iso prostaglandin F2a; MMP-2, matrix metalloproteinase 2; MMP-9, matrix metalloproteinase 9; LDL, low density lipoprotein; ALB, albumin; UA, uric acid; CAT, catalase; CRP, C-reactive protein; PI, plaque index; GI, gingival bleeding index; PPD, probing pocket depth; CAL, clinical attachment level; TNF-alpha, tumor necrosis factor alpha; cGMP, L-arginine-nitric oxide (NO)-cyclic guanosine monophosphate.