Can overweight/obesity be considered as a risk factor for periodontitis? As systematic review

Background: Obesity nowadays is a worldwide epidemic associated with a lot of co-morbidity factor. A lot of previous review investigated the relationship between periodontitis and different chronic diseases such as diabetes mellitus. As obesity is on the rise and is supposed to keep rising up over the years, the project of investigating obesity as a risk factor for periodontitis in the general population came to life. Methods: For this research, access to online database was made through the LUHS ezyproxy system, from those different databases, different type of works have been screen for inclusion. After the acknowledgement of the search terms, inclusion and exclusion criteria were defined for this systematic review. Sixteen different studies have been selected for complete analysis. Result: Sixteen studies were considered as eligible for review and analysis. Of those 14 studies all showed some kind of relation between the two parameters studied in this systematic review which are overweight/obesity and periodontitis. The obesity indicators that could have been used such as body mass index, the waist hip ratio, the waist circumference and the body fat index, have demonstrated to have a significant association with the measure of periodontitis such as bleeding on probing, clinical attachment loss, gingival index, and community periodontal index. Conclusions: There is evidence of an association between periodontitis and obesity