Title

Salivary cotinine levels on periodontal conditions

Authors

Gayathri Muralidaran^1,*, D.V. Nagarathna², Arpita Paul¹ & Ramesh Babu¹

Affiliation

¹Department of Periodontics, Mamata Dental College, Khammam, Telangana, India; ²Department of Periodontics, AJ Institute of Dental Sciences, Mangalore, Karnataka, India; *Corresponding author

Email

Gayathri Muralidaran - E-mail: drgayathri19@gmail.com
D.V. Nagarathna - E-mail: nagarathnahande@gmail.com
Arpita Paul - E-mail: arpita_paul@hotmail.com
Ramesh Babu - E-mail: rameshbabu297@gmail.com

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received July 1, 2025; Revised July 31, 2025; Accepted July 31, 2025, Published July 31, 2025

Abstract

The periodontal health among beedi smokers and tobacco chewers and its correlation to salivary cotinine levels is of interest. Hence, 60 tobacco-consuming male patients of which 30 patients were beedi smokers and 30 were smokeless tobacco users were enrolled in the study. The gingival health and periodontal health were determined. Unstimulated saliva was collected and subjected to quantitative Enzyme linked immunoassay (ELISA). There was a statistically significant effect on number and duration of beedi smoked than chewed (p<0.001). Beedi smoking has more adverse effects on periodontium than tobacco chewing.

Keywords

Enzyme linked immunoassay (ELISA), periodontium, smoking, salivary cotinine, tobacco

Citation

Muralidaran et al. Bioinformation 21(7): 1925-1931 (2025)

Edited by

P Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.