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In this study, we examined saliva samples collected from 2,050 community-dwelling adults using 16S rRNA gene sequencing and verified the predictive performance of salivary microbiota in detecting periodontitis using a light gradient boosting machine algorithm. Five-fold stratified cross-validation was applied with 10 iterations, and the predictive performance was evaluated using the mean area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) value. In detecting periodontitis defined by number of teeth with probing depth \u22654 mm, localized (\u22652 teeth), intermediate (\u22654 teeth), and generalized (\u22656 teeth) cases were detected with mean AUC values of 0.81 (95% confidence intervals, 0.80\u20130.81), 0.85 (0.84\u20130.86), and 0.87 (0.87\u20130.88), showing an increasing trend with extent. According to the Shapley additive explanation analysis, <jats:italic>Porphromonas gingivalis<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Tannerella forsythia<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Mycoplasma faucium, Treponema<\/jats:italic> species HMT-237, and <jats:italic>Fretibacterium<\/jats:italic> species HMT-362 were identified as important features for the detection of periodontitis. 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