The purpose of this study was to investigate the change of tooth mobility and bite force according to periodontal disease severity. Tooth mobility and biting force due to change of viscoelastic property of periodontium were influenced by inflammation of periodontal tissue. 30 patients participated in this study, the periodontal disease severity is evaluated with SBI and attachment loss. SBI and attachment loss were examined by periodontal probe. Tooth mobility was tested two times to each tooth using periotest (Siemens Co, Germany) and bite force was evaluated with MPM-3000 (Nihon Kohden Co, Japan Statistical analysis was applied to correlation (r2) and regression analysis.
The obtained results were as follows
1. As the attachment loss increased, tooth mobility increased with significance, and they had highly positive correlation (r-2=0.68) on entire dentition.
2. As the SBI increased, tooth mobility increased with significance, and they had positive correlation (r2=0.37) on entire dentition.
3. As the attachment loss increased, bite force decreased with significance, and they had highly negative correlation (r2=0.42) on maxillary anterior dentition but low negative correlation (r2=0.20) on the other portion of dentition.
4. As the SBI increased, bite force decreased with significance, and they had highly negative correlation (r-2=0.31) on maxillary anterior dentition but low negative correlation (rz=0.16) on the other portion of dentition.
5. As tooth mobility increased, bite force decreased with significance, and they had highly negative correlation (r2=0.32) on maxillary anterior dentition but low negative correlation (r2=0.16) on the other portion of dentition.
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