Official Title: Use of Salivary Markers to Heralding the Onset of Periodontal Disorders
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Brief Summary: The swelling of the gum or periodontitis is the leading cause for tooth loss and currently affects up to 65 million adults only in the United States One of the reasons for the widespread of periodontitis is because currently there are no definitive methods to detect the onset of gum disease This lack of foresight impedes medical professionals to enact any preventive measures before the disease already manifests itself
We wish to expand our understanding towards the development of periodontitis by studying the expression and activity of salivary markers that have been associated with advanced stages of the disease wherein the supporting tissues of tooth periodontium are already irreversibly destroyed We hypothesize that a progressive shift in the expression of such salivary markers can indicate a change or evolution of periodontitis staging
In specific we seek to establish a quantifiable relationship among levels of salivary proteases called MMPs level of metal ions in different stages varying from health to periodontitis The overall goal of this proposal is to enhance the predictability of periodontitis as we are currently unable to diagnose the disease until the manifestation of its clinical signs and symptoms
Detailed Description: There is an urgent need for an efficient system to diagnose periodontal disease in its early stages A recent investigation on the prevalence of periodontitis in adults living in the USA revealed that almost 50 of the assayed individuals had periodontal disease 1 Research on the economic burden of oral diseases estimated that productivity losses due to severe periodontitis and consequently due to tooth loss in North America US and Canada amounted US 116 billion yearly 2 This pervasiveness of periodontitis can be attributed to the conventional method of diagnosis which is entirely based upon recognizing observable signs - an assessment of the diseases history
A crucial restraint of these observable parameters is that they do not detect present disease activity 3 and therefore cannot provide a real-time evaluation of the disease status 45 The lack of evidence-based knowledge regarding periodontal diseases activity and level of progression may ultimately lead to unintentional clinical mismanagement 6 Accordingly there is an unmet requisite for easy and readily available methods to herald the periodontium health condition prior to the manifestation of disease clinical signs 7
Periodontal diseases are identified as being resultant from an inflammatory host-mediated response associated with dysbiotic plaque biofilms 89 Within the inflammatory host response of periodontal diseases there is a group of enzymes that are key the matrix metalloproteinases MMP10 The abundance of MMPs more specifically MMP-8 in saliva of individuals with severe periodontitis has shown to be high 1112 In physiological conditions the activity of MMPs is tightly controlled by changes in the balance between their expression and the expression of their major tissue endogenous inhibitors called TIMPs 10 In addition the catalytic competence of MMPs is highly dependent on the concentration of specific metal ions zinc and calcium which justifies the use of the prefix metal to classify and group this proteinase superfamily As MMP-inhibitory medication has been shown to reduce the levels of MMPs in oral fluids 1113 we hypothesize that collection of oral fluid samples ie saliva andor gingival crevicular fluid from individuals appertaining to different stages of periodontal diseases can identify a shift in the balance between MMPs and their tissue-regulatory factors
The overall objective of this proposal is to contribute to enhance the predictability of periodontitis and identify a method to heralding its onset We hypothesize that the levels of salivary MMPs and other factors modulating these enzymes activity relate with different clinical stages of periodontal disease The questions this research will address are Do the level of MMPs vary as a function of periodontium health state Is there a quantifiable relationship between salivary MMPs and other markers such as MMP-Tissue Inhibitors TIMPs and metal ions in the context of periodontitis
Thus the specific aims of this purposed study are
To measure the levels of MMPs and MMPs tissue-regulatory factors TIMPs and metal ions in oral fluids of adults displaying different clinical status of periodontium integrity from health stage 0 to severe periodontitis stage IV To determine the relationship of periodontitis clinical staging and levels of salivary MMPs and MMPs regulatory factors
Cited Literature
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