%0 Journal Article %T Ambiente redox salival: Comparaci¨®n entre pacientes con enfermedad periodontal inflamatoria y pacientes periodontalmente sanos %A Lourido P¨¦rez %A Hetzel de la C %A Mart¨ªnez S¨¢nchez %A Gregorio %A Fleitas Vigoa %A Danay de la C %A Fern¨¢ndez Becerra %A Joaqu¨ªn %J Revista de Ciencias M£¿£¿dicas de Pinar del R£¿-o %D 2009 %I Editorial Ciencias M¨¦dicas %X aimed at studying salivary redox environment of the patient suffering from the inflammatory periodontal disease and healthy patients from the periodontal point of view an observation, cross-sectional, a cases and controls study was carried out during july 2006-june 2007 in pinar del rio. the universe was comprised of 35 individuals; no sampling was applied; and two groups were formed, ¡°study¡± which included affected patients and ¡°control¡± periodontally healthy patients. both groups were interviewed and a oral and dental examination was performed. data were collected in a data processing notebook. a sample of saliva was taken and kept refrigerated at -20o c to conduct a biochemical analysis with a hitachi automatic analyzer. the statistical process outliers values, shapiro-wilks, students¡¯s test, pearson¡äs correlation coefficient were calculated, all of them at 95 % of certainty. the existence of an imbalance in the patient¡¯s redox environment respect to healthy patients was observed. mean values were significantly higher than the avanced products of protein oxidation in the patients of the ¡°study¡± respect to those in ¡°control¡± and mean values were significantly higher in the reducing capacity of the ferro-iron in ¡°control¡± patients compared with ¡°study¡±, determining that the advanced products of protein oxidation and the reducing capacity of the ferro-iron were the variables of the major diagnostic value for periodontal disease. %K oxidative stress %K periodontal disease %K saliva. %U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1561-31942009000200014&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en