Open AccessSystemic lycopene as an adjunct to scaling and root planing in chronic periodontitis patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
Author(s) -
Panthula Veerendra Nath Reddy,
Manasa Ambati,
Koduganti Rekharani
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of international society of preventive and community dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.476
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2250-1002
pISSN - 2231-0762
DOI - 10.4103/2231-0762.156520
Subject(s) - medicine , scaling and root planing , periodontology , periodontitis , diabetes mellitus , type 2 diabetes mellitus , chronic periodontitis , type 2 diabetes , glycated hemoglobin , dentistry , gastroenterology , endocrinology
Patients with type 2 diabetes have an increased prevalence of periodontitis and, in turn, periodontitis adversely affects the diabetic status. Oxidative stress plays a key role in affecting the pathophysiology of both the diseases and adjunctive systemic antioxidant therapy may have beneficial effect on the treatment outcome. This study was planned to compare the efficacy of systemic antioxidant therapy with lycopene as an adjunct to scaling and root planing versus scaling and root planing alone in chronic periodontitis patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.