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A cohort of 24 arthritis patients was consecutively recruited before starting anti-TNF\u03b1 therapy. After the dropout of six patients, we evaluated the dental status of 18 subjects at baseline and after 6 months of biological therapy. Clinical responder (R) and non-responder (NR) status was determined after 6 months of anti-TNF treatment. Plaque index (PI), gingival index (GI), bleeding on probing (BOP), probing pocket depth (PPD), PPDmax, clinical attachment loss (CAL), and CALmax were determined. During the 6-month treatment period, six patients (3 RA and 3 AS) terminated the study prematurely as they did not respond to treatment (NR). Therefore, 18 patients were included in the full analysis. There were no major differences in PI, BOP, PPD, PPD max, CAL, and CALmax, among R and NR patients. TNF inhibition resulted in increased GI (0.65 \u00b1 0.34 vs. 0.88 \u00b1 0.30; p &lt; 0.05), as well as decreased PPDmax (4 \u00b1 1.94 vs. 2.72 \u00b1 1.36; p &lt; 0.05) and CALmax (5.22 \u00b1 2.56 vs. 2.72 \u00b1 1.36; p &lt; 0.05) after 6 months. Eight patients had incomplete canal fillings or dead pulps and\/or apical periodontitis; six in the R and two in the NR group. In our present study, anti-TNF therapy seemed to worsen the extent of gingival inflammation (GI); however our results also do not support the reduction of mean CPD and CAL as reported by others.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jcm13020448","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,1,15]],"date-time":"2024-01-15T07:25:07Z","timestamp":1705303507000},"page":"448","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Six-Month Follow-Up of Periodontal Condition in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Ankylosing Spondylitis Arthritis Patients Undergoing Anti-Tumour Necrosis Factor-\u03b1 Therapy"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3458-154X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ildik\u00f3","family":"Tar","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Oral Medicine, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Debrecen, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Edit","family":"V\u00e9gh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Rheumatology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ren\u00e1ta","family":"Martos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Debrecen, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Bogl\u00e1rka","family":"So\u00f3s","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Rheumatology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ildik\u00f3","family":"M\u00e1rton","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Debrecen, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zolt\u00e1n","family":"Szekanecz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Rheumatology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,1,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"685","DOI":"10.1136\/annrheumdis-2019-216655","article-title":"EULAR recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis with synthetic and biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs: 2019 update","volume":"79","author":"Smolen","year":"2020","journal-title":"Ann. 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