Background: Periodontitis is an inflammatory disease of the supporting tissues of the teeth. The present study was conducted to assess CRP level in healthy and periodontitis patients. Materials & Methods: The present study was conducted on 50 subjects chronic gingivitis and periodontitis. Patients were divided into 3 groups. Group I were controls, group II were gingivitis patients and group III were periodontitis patients. Levels of CRP were quantified using a sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Results: Group I was control group, group II was chronic gingivitis group and group III was periodontitis group III. Each group had 25 subjects. The mean PD in group I was 1.24 mm, in group II was 3.11 mm and in group III was 3.44.  AL was 1.96 mm in group I, 4.02 mm in group II and 4.27 mm in group III. The difference was significant (P< 0.05). The mean CRP level was 3018.2 pg/ml in group I, 3567.7 pg/ml in group II and 5231.9 pg/ml in group III. The difference was significant (P< 0.05).
Conclusion: C - reactive protein is the most important factors in the acute phase. There was increase level of CRP in gingivitis and periodontitis group as compared to healthy subjects.
Key words: C - reactive protein, Gingivitis, Periodontitis.

Received: 2 June, 2019                            Revised: 15 June, 2019                  Accepted: 25 June, 2019

Corresponding author: Dr. Ridhi Taneja, BDS Junior resident, Department of Dentistry, Kalpana Chawla Medical College Karnal,  Haryana, India

This article may be cited as: Taneja R, Arora V, Sangwan N. Comparative evaluation of CRP level in healthy and periodontitis patients. Int J Res Health Allied Sci 2019; 5(4):19-21.