Cosmin Totan

TL;DR: As a diagnostic fluid, saliva offers distinctive advantages over serum, and may provide a cost-effective approach for the screening of large populations, and could have a significant role in controlling and/or modulating oxidative damages in the oral cavity.

TL;DR: Salivary AST could be used as a useful marker for monitoring periodontal disease, and the increase in salivary ALP activity in periodontitis demonstrated could be associated with alveolar bone loss, a key feature of periodontic disease.

TL;DR: The preliminary conclusion of this study is that uric acid, the most important salivary antioxidant and GGT could be considered in the future as useful markers of oxidative stress for elaboration of treatment strategy and monitoring.

TL;DR: Results show that salivary antioxidant system is significantly and distinctly affected by both gas and particulate phase of CS and suggest that an adequate intake of antioxidants may help smokers to avoid CS-induced oxidative damage and to prevent degenerative diseases.

TL;DR: The aim of this study was to establish if glutathione peroxidase and gamma‐glutamyltranspherase could be used as possible markers for evaluating the oral oxidative stress caused by smoking.