Present study intended to compare diseased and healthy sites in chronic and aggressive periodontitis with healthy individuals. The investigators suggest that even unaffected healthy sites of both chronic and aggressive periodontitis patients exhibit subclinical inflammation and tissue destruction with decreased fibroblast cell counts and increased inflammatory cell counts. Investigators also suggest that a possible mechanism which might play a role in the disease progression might occur via a disbalance between matrix metalloproteinases and their inhibitors, and increased hypoxia in diseased sites.
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Fibroblast and total inflammatory cell counts
Timeframe: Biopsies were obtained a day after initial examinations, histological analysis were performed 2 weeks after.