ReviewThe Saudi dental journal2024
Implication of serum and salivary albumin tests in the recent oral health related epidemiological studies: A narrative review.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Association Between Iron Deficiency Anemia and Dental Caries in Children: A Systematic Umbrella Meta-Analysis.Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2025Pooled it
- Association Between Periodontal Disease and Blood Biomarkers in U.S. Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study.Biomedicines · 2025Article
- Pediatric Liquid Medications and Dental Caries: A Narrative Review.Health science reports · 2025Article
- Association between neutrophil-percentage-to-albumin ratio and periodontitis: insights from a population-based study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Applications of chitosan in oral health and diseases.Frontiers in oral health · 2025Review
- Role of viruses in periodontitis: An extensive review of herpesviruses, human immunodeficiency virus, coronavirus-19, papillomavirus and hepatitis viruses.World journal of virology · 2024Review
- Albumin nanoparticles are a promising drug delivery system in dentistry.Biomedical engineering online · 2024Review
- Topkan's CARWL Index Efficiently Predicts the Radiation-Induced Tooth Loss Rates in Radically Treated Locally Advanced Nasopharyngeal Cancer Patients.Technology in cancer research & treatmentArticle
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Abstract
Albumin is the most abundant protein in human serum and a specific amount of albumin also can be found in the saliva. It has several physiological functions such as blood colloidal osmotic pressure, antioxidant activity, binding and transporting of endogenous and exogenous substrates. We conducted an electronic search across several databases such as PubMed, Scopus, Cochrane, Embase and Science Direct using the relevant MeSH terms and keywords like "albumin", "serum albumin", "salivary albumin", "oral health" "dental caries" and "epidemiology". Only the epidemiological studies published between 2010 and 2023 were included. After the application of the inclusion criteria, a total of 51 studied were included in this narrative review. Serum and salivary albumin tests have been used in various aspects of oral health as a diagnostic and prognostic factor. Some of the results point out to a pattern of association while some of them are inconclusive and even contradictory. This narrative review discusses the role, significance and impact of albumin in epidemiological oral health related studies including the categories of periodontal health and disease, dental caries, oral function and hypofunction, nutrition and malnutrition, tooth loss and its treatment, diabetes and cancer. In addition, it offers a short manual for the researchers on when, where and how to use albumin tests in planning their study designs whether investigating an association or measure them as a covariate.
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