TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schlagenhauf, Ulrich
A1  - Rehder, Juliane
A1  - Gelbrich, Götz
A1  - Jockel‐Schneider, Yvonne
T1  - Consumption of Lactobacillus reuteri‐containing lozenges improves periodontal health in navy sailors at sea: A randomized controlled trial
JF  - Journal of Periodontology
N2  - Background
The objective of this trial was to evaluate whether the regular consumption of probiotics may improve the known deterioration of periodontal health in navy sailors during deployments at sea.

Methods
72 healthy sailors of a naval ship on a practicing mission at sea were recruited and randomly provided with a blinded supply of lozenges to be consumed twice daily for the following 42 days containing either the probiotic strains Lactobacillus reuteri (DSM 17938 and L. reuteri (ATTC PTA 5289) (test n = 36) or no probiotics (placebo n = 36). At baseline, at day 14 and day 42 bleeding on probing (primary outcome), gingival index, plaque control record, probing attachment level, and probing pocket depth were assessed at the Ramfjord teeth.

Results
At baseline there were no significant differences between the groups. At day 14 and day 42 test group scores of all assessed parameters were significantly improved (P < 0.001) compared to baseline and to the placebo group which by contrast showed a significant (P < 0.001) deterioration of all parameters at the end of the study.

Conclusions
The consumption of probiotic L. reuteri‐lozenges is an efficacious measure to improve and maintain periodontal health in situations with waning efficacy of personal oral hygiene.
KW  - gingivitis
KW  - oral hygiene
KW  - probiotics
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-215577
VL  - 91
IS  - 10
SP  - 1328
EP  - 1338
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dannewitz, Bettina
A1  - Sommerer, Claudia
A1  - Stölzel, Peggy
A1  - Baid‐Agrawal, Seema
A1  - Nadal, Jennifer
A1  - Bärthlein, Barbara
A1  - Wanner, Christoph
A1  - Eckardt, Kai‐Uwe
A1  - Zeier, Martin
A1  - Schlagenhauf, Ulrich
A1  - Krane, Vera
A1  - Jockel‐Schneider, Yvonne
T1  - Status of periodontal health in German patients suffering from chronic kidney disease—Data from the GCKD study
JF  - Journal of Clinical Periodontology
N2  - Aim
To assess the prevalence and severity of periodontitis in patients with moderate chronic kidney disease (CKD) and comparing the results with the self‐reported periodontitis awareness of the study subjects.

Material and methods
The periodontal status of 270 patients with moderate CKD randomly selected from a cohort of 5,217 subjects participating in the prospective observational German Chronic Kidney Disease (GCKD) project was analysed by recording bleeding on probing (BOP), probing pocket depth (PPD) and clinical attachment level (CAL). Furthermore, the awareness of the study subjects of their periodontal conditions was evaluated by a self‐reported questionnaire.

Results
24.4% of the CKD study patients showed no or only mild signs of periodontal disease, 47.6% displayed moderate and 27% severe periodontitis. Questionnaire data revealed that 62.3% of the study subjects with severe periodontitis were not aware of the presence of the disease, 44.4% denied having received any systematic periodontal therapy so far, although 50% of them indicated to visit their dentist regularly for professional tooth cleanings.

Conclusion
While the clinical study data confirm an increased prevalence of periodontitis in CKD patients, their self‐reported awareness of periodontitis was low.
KW  - chronic kidney disease
KW  - observational cohort study
KW  - periodontitis
KW  - risk factors
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-217821
VL  - 47
IS  - 1
SP  - 19
EP  - 29
ER  -