Effect of scaling and root planing on interleukin‐1β, interleukin‐8 and MMP‐8 levels in gingival crevicular fluid from chronic periodontitis patients

Abstract

Our observations indicated that short-term nonsurgical therapy resulted in a significant improvement in periodontal indices and in a marked decrease of IL-1β, IL-8 and MMP-8 gingival crevicular fluid levels. Nevertheless, no significant correlations were found between clinical parameters and amounts of humoral factors after therapy.