Salivary female sex hormone levels and gingivitis in pregnancy

ABSTRACT

Thirty pregnant females and ten controls were subjected to clinical dental examination together with determination of salivary estradiol 17-B and salivary progesterone levels using the radio-immunoassay method. Our data showed increased gingival inflammation during pregnancy. There was a significant increase in the levels of both oestrogen and progesterone in the saliva during pregnancy and this was accused as a cause in the pregnancy gingivitis and it was termed the hormonal factor in pregnancy gingivitis