Lactobacillus reuteri and Improved Sulcus Bleeding Index

• Effect of oral administration involving a probiotic strain of Lactobacillus reuteri on pro-inflammatory cytokine response in patients with chronic periodontitis.

  • 2014-02-09
  • Clinical Trial · n = 24
  • Archivum immunologiae et therapiae experimentalis 62(6)
  • • Anna K Szkaradkiewicz
    • Janina Stopa
    • Tomasz M Karpiński

  • PubMed: 24509697
  • DOI: 10.1007/s00005-014-0277-y

  6 Insights on

  • Improved Sulcus Bleeding Index

  • Moderate evidence
  • Clinical

  In parallel, we have detected an improvement of clinical indices [sulcus bleeding index (SBI), periodontal probing depth (PPD), clinical attachment level (CAL)].

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  Probiotic tablets (Prodentis) containing L. reuteri strain producing hydrogen peroxide – exact dose not specified