1PG Student, Department of Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgery, BRS Dental College and General Hospital, Haryana
2BDS, Private consultant, Punjab
3BDS, Private consultant, Punjab
4Assocaite professor, BRS Dental College, Haryana
5Assocaite professor, BRS Dental College, Haryana
*Corresponding Author: Dr. Sarish Latief, PG Student, Department of Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgery, BRS Dental College and General Hospital, Haryana
Online published on 17 November, 2021.
Xerostomia or ‘dry mouth’ is the result of inadequate saliva in either quantity of flow or quality of saliva. The present study was conducted to assess salivary cortisol level in patients with xerostomia.
125 patients of dry mouth of both genders were included in group I and 125 healthy subjects I group II. The concentration of cortisol in the saliva was determined by using a salivary cortisol enzyme immunoassay kit.
Group I had 70 males and 55 females and group II had 65 males and 60 females. The mean cortisol level in group I was 2.45 μg/dl and in group II was 1.86 μg/dl. The difference was significant (P<0.05).
Xerostomia patients had low level of salivary cortisol level as compared to healthy subjects.
Cortisol, Dry Mouth, Xerostomia
