Salivary Melatonin and the Severity of Attachment Loss: A Case-Control Study

Table 1

Comparison of age and salivary melatonin levels based on gender and study subjects in all groups.

	Healthy	Gingivitis	Localized moderate CP	Generalized moderate CP	Generalized severe CP
Age	40.5 ± 6.02	37.2 ± 6.79	38.6 ± 6.58	41.2 ± 6.56	44.7 ± 4.08
Male; MT level (pg/mL)	5.22 ± 0.38	4.34 ± 0.38	3.77 ± 0.32	3.75 ± 0.31	3.35 ± 0.10
Female; MT level (pg/mL)	5.35 ± 0.64	4.36 ± 0.23	4.01 ± 0.26	3.96 ± 0.42	3.41 ± 0.10
Total; MT level (pg/mL)	5.29 ± 0.50	4.35 ± 0.31	3.86 ± 0.30	3.85 ± 0.36	3.39 ± 0.10

C.P: chronic periodontitis.