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ReviewDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2017

Salivary Diagnostics-Point-of-Care diagnostics of MMP-8 in dentistry and medicine.

Nilminie Rathnayake, Dirk-Rolf Gieselmann, Anna Maria Heikkinen, Taina Tervahartiala, Timo Sorsa

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Review in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

51 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Evaluation of Salivary Biomarkers of Periodontal Disease Based on Smoking Status: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  4. Efficacy of a Microencapsulated Sugar-Free Probiotic Oral Rinse on Gingival Health and Salivary Matrix Metalloproteinases 8 and 9 in Children With Down Syndrome: A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial.Special care in dentistry : official publication of the American Association of Hospital Dentists, the Academy of Dentistry for the Handicapped, and the American Society for Geriatric Dentistry
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  17. Simulated Media for Mimicking the Human Environment In Vitro.APMIS : acta pathologica, microbiologica, et immunologica Scandinavica · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Nilminie RathnayakeDivision of Periodontology, Department of Dental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 17177 Stockholm, Sweden. Nilminie.Rathnayake@ki.se.
Dirk-Rolf GieselmannDivision of Periodontology, Dentognostics GmbH, 07745 Jena, Germany. gieselmann4@aol.com.
Anna Maria HeikkinenDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Diseases, University of Helsinki, Helsinki University Central Hospital, 00014 Helsinki, Finland. anna.m.heikkinen@helsinki.fi.
Taina TervahartialaDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Diseases, University of Helsinki, Helsinki University Central Hospital, 00014 Helsinki, Finland. taina.tervahartiala@helsinki.fi.
Timo SorsaDivision of Periodontology, Department of Dental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 17177 Stockholm, Sweden. timo.sorsa@helsinki.fi.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human saliva is an easily accessible biological fluid and contains a variety of disease-related biomarkers, which makes it a potential diagnostic medium. The clinical use of salivary/oral fluid biomarkers to identify oral and systemic conditions requires the development of non-invasive screening and diagnostic technologies, and is among the main goals of oral fluid researchers. The analysis of the disease-specific oral and systemic biomarkers in saliva and oral fluids (i.e., mouth-rinse, gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) and peri-implantitis sulcular fluid (PISF)) is demanding. Several factors influence their expression and release; these factors include the intracellular location, the molecular size and the flow characteristics of the biological fluid. The type of saliva/oral fluid utilized for the diagnostics affects the analysis. High sensitivity together with sophisticated methods and techniques are essential to get a useful outcome. We describe here a recently developed mouth-rinse that is practical, convenient and inexpensive, as well as PISF chair-side/point of care (PoC) lateral-flow active matrix metalloproteinase (aMMP-8) immunoassays to detect, predict and monitor the course and treatment of periodontitis and peri-implantitis.

Indexed as

diagnostic testperi-implantitisperiodontitispoint-of-caresystemic diseases

Identifiers

PMID28117682
PMCPMC5373016

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