Oral Microbiome and Lung Function Data from a Periodontal Therapy Intervention Study

A longitudinal clinical trial of 57 never-smoking adults with stage I-II periodontitis. The dataset includes subgingival plaque microbiome data from shotgun metagenomics and airway resistance measurements taken at baseline and six weeks after full-mouth periodontal disinfection. The data was published by Anders Røsland on figshare and last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling the association between periodontitis-associated bacterial taxa and airway resistance based on shotgun metagenomics data.
• Analyzing longitudinal shifts in oral microbial communities before and after periodontal therapy.
• Investigating correlations between clinical periodontal parameters and lung function measurements.
• Training classifiers to differentiate health-associated and periodontitis-associated microbiome profiles.

Strengths

• Data is from a controlled longitudinal intervention study with 57 participants.
• Includes paired clinical (airway resistance) and molecular (shotgun metagenomics) measurements at two time points.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is small at 22.8 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Anders Røsland.

Collection Method

Data collected from a longitudinal clinical trial involving subgingival plaque sampling and airway resistance measurement.

Time Range

Measurements taken at baseline and six weeks post-therapy.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 06:57:51; freshness should be verified.