Diagnostic Potential of Salivary Interleukin-17, RANKL, and OPG to Differentiate Between Periodontal Health and Disease and Discriminate Stable and Unstable Periodontitis: A Case-control Study

Overview

Journal Health Sci Rep

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2023 Feb 13

PMID 36778772

Authors

Marwa A Abdullameer

Ali A Abdulkareem

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Abstract

Background And Aims: Limitations of the conventional diagnostic techniques urged researchers to seek novel methods to predict, diagnose, and monitor periodontal disease. Use of the biomarkers available in oral fluids could be a revolutionary surrogate for the manual probing/diagnostic radiograph. Several salivary biomarkers have the potential to accurately discriminate periodontal health and disease. This study aimed to determine the diagnostic sensitivity and specificity of salivary interleukin (IL)-17, receptor activator of nuclear factor-κB ligand (RANKL), osteoprotegerin (OPG), RANKL/OPG for differentiating (1) periodontal health from disease and (2) stable and unstable periodontitis.

Methods: Participants with periodontitis ( = 50) and gingivitis ( = 25), both diseases represented the cases, and subjects with healthy periodontium ( = 15) as a control were recruited for this study. Periodontitis cases were further equally subdivided into stable and unstable. Whole unstimulated salivary sample were collected from all participants. Periodontal parameters including bleeding on probing, probing pocket depth, clinical attachment loss, and number of missing teeth were recorded. The protein levels of salivary IL-17, RANKL, and OPG were determined by using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays technique.

Results: Salivary IL-17, OPG, RANKL, and RANKL/OPG showed high sensitivity and specificity to differentiate periodontal health from gingivitis and periodontitis. Similar pattern was observed in discriminating stable and unstable periodontitis. Salivary IL-17 and RANKL showed a good accuracy to differentiate gingivitis from periodontitis. However, OPG and RANKL/OPG did not exhibit enough sensitivity and specificity to differentiate the latter conditions.

Conclusion: Salivary IL-17, RANKL, OPG, and RANKL/OPG system are potential candidates for differentiating periodontal health and disease and discriminate stable and unstable periodontitis.

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