Lactobacillus reuteri and Reduced Alveolar Bone Loss

• Clinical Effects of Lactobacillus reuteri on Gingival Inflammation and Alveolar Bone Loss in Periodontitis.

  • 2025-09-30
  • RCT · n = 120
  • Oral health & preventive dentistry 23
  • • Jian Lu
    • Xiaoxiang He
    • Ting Du
    • Dongjie Fu

  • PubMed: 41026095
  • DOI: 10.3290/j.ohpd.c_2289

  7 Insights on

  • Reduced Alveolar Bone Loss

  • High evidence
  • Large Human Trial
  • Clinical

  Radiographic bone loss improved to mild Moffat grades in 66.7% of test patients (vs 33.3% in controls, p 0.001)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  1×10⁹ CFU/day