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Demographic variable	Health	Gingivitis/peri-implant mucositis	Periodontitis/peri-implantitis
Number of patients	15	15	15
Sex (males/females)	7/8	8/8	7/7
Mean age Range (years)	40 18–62	42 18–64	31 19–61

Declarations

Author contributions

RG: Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing. RR: Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing—original draft. AZ: Supervision, Methodology, Formal analysis. EX: Conceptualization, Writing—review & editing. SP: Visualization, Formal analysis, Writing—review & editing. DDN: Validation, Investigation, Writing—review & editing. LT: Supervision, Project administration. All authors read and approved the submitted version.

Conflicts of interest

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Ethical approval

Ethics Committee of Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma [protocol code: PAR 30.21 (OSS) ComEt CBM-30/03/2021].

Consent to participate

Informed consent to participate in the study was obtained from all participants.

Consent to publication

Not applicable.

Availability of data and materials

The datasets for this manuscript are not publicly available because they expose sensitive data from included patients. Requests for accessing the datasets should be directed to Dr. Guarnieri and Dr. Reda.

Funding

Not applicable.

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