Dietary restrictions could reduce gum disease

In the review recently published in Clinical Oral Investigations, the effects on both treatment response (usually measured as gum pockets and bleeding) and inflammation were studied, as it is known that periodontitis results in inflammation not just locally but also in circulation. As the first systematic review to assess the possible effect of dietary restrictions on periodontal (gum) disease, the study found that some improvements were made in the periodontal condition by reducing local and systematic inflammation.

Four animal studies and two human studies were included in this review. The King’s College London team found that some dietary/caloric restriction approaches may have the potential to affect periodontal conditions by reducing the local and systemic inflammation and by improving clinical parameters, thus reducing the periodontal disease progression when compared to a normal diet.