The Relationship Between Gingival Tissue Temperatures and Various Indicators of Gingival Inflammation

Holthuis, A. F.; Gelskey, Shirley C.; Chebib, F. S.

doi:10.1902/jop.1981.52.4.187

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“…In full mouth assessments, 86% of diseased subjects (sensitivity) and 91% of healthy subjects (specificity) were recognized correctly by the temperature technique. These results are consistent with reported higher temperatures in inter- proximal sulcular tissue With the presence of dental plaque and bleeding on probing (Holthius et al 1981). Sensitivity and specificity levels are clearly a function of the classification of the diseased state based on BOP, suppuration, and attachment level.…”

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Temperature as a periodontal diagnostic

Kung¹,

Ochs²,

Goodson³

1992

J Clin Pharm Ther

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Elevated temperature, normally a characteristic of inflammation, is a potential indicator of periodontal disease. Conversely, local periodontal site temperatures within normal variation could suggest relative periodontal health. To evaluate this potential, a temperature probe was designed with rapid response (< 1 s), high accuracy and reproducibility ( + 0.1°C), good transducer thermal isolation and physical dimensions approximating those of a conventional periodontal probe. To compensate for subject-to-subject variations in core temperature, site temperatures were measured and expressed as differences relative to the sublingual temperature. A cross sectional study was conducted using this instrument in which pocket temperatures of 14 subjects with advanced adult periodontitis were measured and compared with the sulcus temperatures of 11 healthy subjects. Overall, the mean site temperature of the diseased subjects was 0.65 °C higher than that of the healthy subjects. A natural posterior-to-anterior temperature gradient was observed with the posterior sites being hotter than the anterior sites. Tooth-by-tooth analysis showed that diseased teeth have higher temperatures than anatomically equivalent healthy teeth (p

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Temperature as a periodontal diagnostic

Kung¹,

Ochs²,

Goodson³

1992

J Clin Pharm Ther

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“…We found that T. denticola cells swim considerably faster and grow better at 35³C than at 25³C. Because the prevailing temperature of the gingival sulcus is approximately 35³C [16], our results are consistent with this oral pocket serving as the ecological niche for these spirochetes [2]. The speed of intestinal spirochetes has also been shown to be markedly in£uenced by temperature [17,18].…”

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Effect of temperature and viscosity on the motility of the spirochete Treponema denticola

Ruby

1998

FEMS Microbiology Letters

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Treponema denticola is an oral spirochete associated with periodontal diseases. Because bacterial motility is likely to be a potential virulence factor, we investigated the effect of viscosity and temperature on cell speed. In agreement with the work of others, translational motility was a function of the macroscopic viscosity of the medium. In addition, we found that although the speed of spirochetes was slow at 25³C (4 Wm s 3I ), it increased quite markedly at 35³C (19 Wm s 3I ). The results indicate that both viscosity and temperature are critical factors in T. denticola translational motility. z

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“…5-7). (Mukherjee 1978, Ng et al 1978, Holthuis et al 1981, Volchansky et al 1985, Volchansky & Cleaton-Jones 1987, Kung et al 1990) that the average subgingival temperature was almost 2°C lower than the sublingual temperature. In addition, there was a great deal of variation of temperatures between teeth as pointed out previously.…”

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“…Temperature is one of the more attractive methods of evaluating this response, since it lends itself to direct physical measurement. A number of devices have been developed to measure subgingival temperature (Mukherjee 1978, Ng et al 1978, Holthuis et al 1981, Volchansky et al 1985, Volchansky & Cleaton-Jones 1987, Kung et al 1990. These studies described a number of interesting features of subgingival temperature measurements.…”

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Subgingival temperature (I). Relation to baseline clinical parameters

Haffajee

Socransky²,

Goodson³

1992

J Clinic Periodontology

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44 subjects ranging in age from 14-71 years were measured at 6 sites per tooth for gingival redness, plaque accumulation, suppuration, bleeding on probing, pocket depth and attachment level. Subgingival temperatures were measured at the same 6 sites per tooth using a periodontal temperature probe (Periotemp, Abiodent, Danvers, MA). This instrument was also used to measure each subject's sublingual temperature in order to compute the differences between sublingual and subgingival temperature. Relationships were sought between the baseline clinical parameters and the temperature variables in subjects and at sites. The mean and standard deviation of the sublingual temperatures for the 44 subjects was 36.6 +/- 0.4 degrees C (range 35.8-37.6 degrees C). The mean of each subject's mean whole mouth subgingival temperature was 1.9 degrees C lower, 34.8 +/- 0.6 degrees C (range 33.4-36.1 degrees C). The differences of the mean subgingival temperature from sublingual ranged from -0.8 to -3.2 degrees C (average -1.9 +/- 0.5 degrees C). Mean temperature difference for a subject correlated with % of sites with plaque (rs = 0.45), redness (rs = 0.33), bleeding on probing (rs = 0.44), % of sites with attachment level greater than 3 mm (rs = 0.44), mean pocket depth (rs = 0.44) and mean attachment level (rs = 0.39). There were higher mean temperatures at sites exhibiting or not exhibiting plaque (35.0, 34.5 degrees C), redness (34.9, 34.6), bleeding on probing (35.1, 34.7) and suppuration (35.4, 34.8). Sites with pockets less than 4, 4-6 and greater than 6 mm had mean temperatures of 34.6, 35.2, 35.8 degrees C, respectively.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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The Relationship Between Gingival Tissue Temperatures and Various Indicators of Gingival Inflammation

Cited by 28 publications

References 4 publications

Temperature as a periodontal diagnostic

Temperature as a periodontal diagnostic

Effect of temperature and viscosity on the motility of the spirochete Treponema denticola

Subgingival temperature (I). Relation to baseline clinical parameters

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