Impact of scaling and root planing on salivary and serum plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 expression in patients with periodontitis with and without type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Background: Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) is significantly enhanced in insulin resistance and inflammation and ascribed as a proinflammatory marker. This study aimed to compare and correlate salivary and serum PAI-1 and alpha 2-macroglobulin (α2MG) in patients with periodontitis with and without type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and also appraise the consequence of periodontal treatment on these biomarkers.

Methods: Sixty subjects enlisted were split into two groups; Group 1 consisted of 30 systemically healthy subjects with Stage II and III, generalized, Grade B, C periodontitis while Group 2 consisted of 30 patients with periodontitis and well-controlled T2DM (PDM).

Analysing adipokine Omentin-1 in periodontal disease and type-2 diabetes mellitus: An interventional comparative study.

Background And Objective: Omentin-1 is an anti-inflammatory adipokine associated with metabolic disorders including insulin resistance, glucose intolerance and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Diabetes is a crucial systemic risk factor for occurrence of periodontitis. Periodontitis is deliberated as a complication of diabetes.

A Nonsyndromic Autosomal Dominant Oligodontia with A Novel Mutation of PAX9-A Clinical and Genetic Report.

Oligodontia is congenital absence of one or more teeth which has familial abnormality and attributable to various mutations or polymorphisms of genes often associated with malformative syndromes. The present case reports a rare case of non syndromic oligodontia in an 8-year-old girl with missing 14 permanent teeth excluding third molars in mixed dentition. It is a rare finding which has not been frequently documented in Indian children.