“Sobrepeso y su relación con gingivitis: una revisión sistemática”

Abstract

Objective: to verify the relationship between overweight and gingivitis in adolescents. Materials and methods: The authors independently performed the systematic search of the literature on the proposed topic using PICO (by its Spanish acronym) question; the search was conduced in three phases: first, through keywords placed in different databases and journals such as Scopus, Web of Science, Pubmed, and Taylor & Francis; Journal of periodontology, implantology and oral rehabilitation PIRO (by its spanish acronym) Periodontology 2000, Clinical periodontology and Journal of Periodontology, to obtain the corresponding information; secondly, it was proceeded to evaluate the research biases using the Downs &Black (1998) checklist as a tool, getting as a result, a medium bias and the data were extracted for analysis, expressed in the result tables. Results: There is a positive correlation between overweight/obesity and gingivitis in adolescents due to different factors such as the number of hormones in this stage of life, sex, quality of life, oral hygiene, and diet; which actively participate in the development of gingivitis together with weight gain (overweight/obesity). Conclusion: After analysing the information in each article, it was determined that a high Body Mass Index (overweight/obesity) is significantly associated with the presence of gingivitis. However, the factors (sex, quality of oral hygiene, quality of life, and diet) also play a role in developing gingivitis.