Abstract:Background: Chronic periodontitis is a multifactorial disease which is influenced by a variety of risk factors including psychosocial factors such as depression and stress that are known to affect the immune system thereby affecting the periodontal tissue. Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between periodontal parameters and depression. Materials and Methods: 35 patients with periodontitis as test group and 35 periodontally healthy patients as control group were included. Oral hygiene i… Show more
“…10 The finding of current study are in agreement with study of Penmetsa et al which found dental students with high stress levels than medical and pharmacy students 7 Moss et al stated that depression was related to increased severity of periodontitis. 11 Their results are in line with our study as depression seemed to have strongest relationship with chronic localized periodontitis as can be observed in Table 1.…”
Introduction: Periodontitis is an ailment with multiple factors where bacterial dental plaque is marked as the main causative agent for the beginning of this inflammatory phenomena, but also the host defense and environmental components takes part in the progress of disease. Among the environmental factors stress is a considerable factor that regulates the host defense mechanism through hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis and can play role in the development of periodontitis.
Objectives: To determine the relationship between mental stress and anxiety with Periodontitis. (Chronic localized Periodontitis)
Methodology: A total of 118 respondents were included in this correlational cross-sectional study. The subjects who fulfilled the inclusion criteria underwent periodontal examination by means of probing depth for presence of chronic localized periodontitis and were asked to fill the 42-item Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS) questionnaire to check association between mental stress, anxiety and its related symptoms with periodontitis.
Results: Some participants showed normal range in DASS Scale and some showed mild and moderate levels of depression, stress and anxiety. However, we found that higher the value of depression, anxiety and stress, higher was the value of probing depth.
Conclusion: There was positive correlation between mental stress and anxiety with periodontitis. However, Depression was found to have a slightly more association with Periodontitis. Moreover, further studies can be done to determine link between mental stress and its related symptoms with periodontitis.
Keywords: Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Periodontitis, Probing depth, DASS.
“…10 The finding of current study are in agreement with study of Penmetsa et al which found dental students with high stress levels than medical and pharmacy students 7 Moss et al stated that depression was related to increased severity of periodontitis. 11 Their results are in line with our study as depression seemed to have strongest relationship with chronic localized periodontitis as can be observed in Table 1.…”
Introduction: Periodontitis is an ailment with multiple factors where bacterial dental plaque is marked as the main causative agent for the beginning of this inflammatory phenomena, but also the host defense and environmental components takes part in the progress of disease. Among the environmental factors stress is a considerable factor that regulates the host defense mechanism through hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis and can play role in the development of periodontitis.
Objectives: To determine the relationship between mental stress and anxiety with Periodontitis. (Chronic localized Periodontitis)
Methodology: A total of 118 respondents were included in this correlational cross-sectional study. The subjects who fulfilled the inclusion criteria underwent periodontal examination by means of probing depth for presence of chronic localized periodontitis and were asked to fill the 42-item Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS) questionnaire to check association between mental stress, anxiety and its related symptoms with periodontitis.
Results: Some participants showed normal range in DASS Scale and some showed mild and moderate levels of depression, stress and anxiety. However, we found that higher the value of depression, anxiety and stress, higher was the value of probing depth.
Conclusion: There was positive correlation between mental stress and anxiety with periodontitis. However, Depression was found to have a slightly more association with Periodontitis. Moreover, further studies can be done to determine link between mental stress and its related symptoms with periodontitis.
Keywords: Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Periodontitis, Probing depth, DASS.
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