Abstract:Objective To study the effect of estrogen on periodontal tissue of rats with experimental periodontitis. Methods Thirty-three female non-pregnant SD rats were randomly divided into a sham operation group (sham group), an ovariectomized group (OVX group) and an OVX+estrogen group (OVX+E group). After adaptive feeding, the female rats of each group underwent sham operation or bilateral oophorectomy respectively. Estradiol was injected postoperatively every three days in the OVX+E group. The animal model of chronic periodontitis was established by ligating the right maxillary molars with the wire, and the teeth of the left side of the rats were taken as control and not treated. Through the detection of serum E2 level, and observation of the clinical manifestations and HE sections, the development of periodontitis in the rats was compared after 2, 4 and 6 weeks. Results With the progress of time, the level of E2 in the OVX group decreased gradually, the level of E2 in the sham group and the OVX+E group remained unchanged. In each group, the level of periodontal probing gradually deepened, and the degree of periodontitis in the OVX group was higher than that in the sham group and the OVX+E group. Conclusions The level of estrogen can affect the pathological development of periodontitis, and the deficiency of endogenous estrogen may increase the degree of periodontitis.