Salivary leptin levels in normal weight and overweight individuals and their correlation with orthodontic tooth movement.

CONCLUSIONS: Overweight individuals had greater salivary leptin concentration. There was a positive correlation between salivary leptin concentration and rate of tooth movement in both normal and overweight individuals. The rate of tooth movement is decreased in overweight individuals as compared with normal weight individuals.
PMID: 28471265 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The Angle Orthodontist - May 4, 2017 Category: Dentistry Authors: Jayachandran T, Srinivasan B, Padmanabhan S Tags: Angle Orthod Source Type: research