The effect of probiotics on periodontal diseases

Background and Objective: One of the most important and common health problems is periodontal disease. Probiotics, which are defined as live microbes that have health benefits to a host when used in enough quantities. Different types of treatments are used for periodontal diseases but using of probiotics can be a safe and easy-to-use treatment option for periodontal disease. The purpose of this study is determining the effect of probiotics on periodontal diseases.Search Method: An electronic search was performed in the PubMed (Medline) database, for relevant article and the terms probiotics , periodontal and diseases was used.Finding: Result of this study show that probiotics may benefit periodontal health. Oral administration of probiotics improved the recognized clinical signs of periodontal diseases such as probing pocket depth, bleeding on probing and attachment loss; Also using of probiotics can reduce plaque index (PI), gingival index (GI), bleeding on probing (BoP) and probing depth (PD).Conclusion: Probiotics are a kind of bacteriotherapy that have beneficial effects on the treatment of periodontal diseases. Other kind of treatment for periodontal disease may require different antibiotics but consuming probiotics can reduce using of antibiotics and allergic reactions. To confirm probiotic s effects on the management and prevalence and treatment of periodontal diseases long-term follow- up periods are needed; Also evaluation of the required dose of probiotics, delivery mechanism, patient profile and duration of treatment is important. Many similar studies have been done so far and according to different result of these studies, more research is needed.

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Probiotics ، periodontal ، diseases