Statement of the problem: Traditional clinical criteria are usually not sufficient for determining the sites of active periodontal disease, monitoring the response to treatment, or measuring the susceptibility to future disease development. Past studies have shown that heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) are involved in the etiology of periodontal disease.
Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the level of HSP70 in saliva of patients with chronic periodontitis (CP).
Materials and method: In our case-control study, the saliva samples of 45 patients with CP and 45 age- and sex-matched healthy subjects were collected. Salivary HSP70 was measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay method. The results were analyzed by statistical tests using SPSS 16 and the statistically significant difference was set at p< 0.05.
Results: In this study, the mean salivary HSP70 level was 2.81±0.61ng/ml in the patient group and 1.96±0.77ng/ml in the healthy group, with a significant difference (p< 0.05). In addition, the results of spearman correlation analysis showed a positive correlation between salivary HSP 70 and clinical periodontal index.
Conclusion: The results of this study showed that the salivary HSP70 level in patients with CP is higher than that in healthy subjects. As a result, salivary HSP70 might be considered as a marker in the pathogenesis of CP.
Keywords: Chronic periodontitis; HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins; Saliva.
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