ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2020
Changes in the Salivary Metabolic Profile of Generalized Periodontitis Patients after Non-surgical Periodontal Therapy: A Metabolomic Analysis Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy.
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- Metabolomics Analysis as a Tool in Periodontitis Diagnosis: A Systematic Review.Clinical and experimental dental research · 2025Pooled it
- Lipidomics in Periodontal Disease Research: A Systematic Review.Current medicinal chemistry · 2025Pooled it
- Periodontal disease metabolomics signatures from different biofluids: a systematic review.Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society · 2022Pooled it
- The oral‒gut axis in periodontal disease: a systematic review of the associated human evidence of its mechanisms and implications for patient care.Journal of oral microbiology · 2026Review
- Omics Sciences in Dentistry: A Narrative Review on Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications for Prevalent Oral Diseases.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Successful endodontic treatment improves glucose and lipid metabolism: a longitudinal metabolomic study.Journal of translational medicine · 2025Article
- Saliva metabolomics: a non-invasive frontier for diagnosing and managing oral diseases.Journal of translational medicine · 2025Review
- Metabolomics Applications for Diagnosing Peri-Implantitis: A Systematic Review of In Vivo Studies.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Radiation-induced changes in salivary metabolite profile and pathways in head and neck cancer patients.Clinical oral investigations · 2025Article
- Metabolic Footprint ofPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Salivary Metabolites Produced by Oral Microbes in Oral Diseases and Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Review.Metabolites · 2024Review
- Manipulating the diseased oral microbiome: the power of probiotics and prebiotics.Journal of oral microbiology · 2024Review
- Oral Sources of Salivary Metabolites.Metabolites · 2023Review
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- Metabolic Profile of Whole Unstimulated Saliva in Patients with Sjögren's Syndrome.Metabolites · 2023Article
- Metabolomic Profiles Associated with Obesity and Periodontitis during Pregnancy: Cross-Sectional Study with Proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (Metabolites · 2022Article
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- Salivary Metabolomics for Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Diagnosis: A Systematic Review.Metabolites · 2022Review
- Integrated analysis of the salivary microbiome and metabolome in chronic and aggressive periodontitis: A pilot study.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Salivary Metabolomics for Diagnosis and Monitoring Diseases: Challenges and Possibilities.Metabolites · 2021Review
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Abstract
Pattern analysis of the salivary metabolic profile has been proven accurate in discriminating between generalized periodontitis (GP) patients and healthy individuals (HI), as this disease modifies the salivary concentrations of specific metabolites. Due to the scarcity of data from previous studies, this study aimed to evaluate if non-surgical periodontal therapy (NST) could affect the metabolomic profile in GP patients' saliva and if it compares to that of HI. Unstimulated salivary samples were collected from 11 HI and 12 GP patients before and 3 months after NST. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, followed by a supervised multivariate statistical approach on entire saliva spectra and partial least square (PLS) discriminant analysis, were performed to obtain metabolic profiles. In the GP group, periodontal treatment improved all clinical parameters, but not all the diseased sites were eradicated. PLS revealed an accuracy of 100% in distinguishing between metabolic profiles of GP patients before and after NST. Orthogonal projection to latent structure was able to discriminate between the three groups of subjects with an accuracy of 85.6%. However, the post-NST metabolic profile of GP patients could not be completely assimilated to that of HI. Although NST may produce significant changes in the metabolic profile, GP patients maintained a distinctive fingerprint compared to HI.
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