Periodontal health and serum, saliva matrix metalloproteinases in patients with mild chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Abstract

The present findings suggest that immunodetection of MMP-8 is dependent on the selected techniques and even with mild COPD some systemic inflammatory markers such as MMP-8 tend to increase. However, the present clinical periodontal and biochemical findings do not provide support for the previously proposed interaction between COPD and periodontal diseases.