Periodontitis, a major oral disease, affects a vast majority of the population but has been
often ignored without realizing its long-fetched effects on overall human health. A realization …

Throughout the 20th century, an understanding of the role of causative bacteria and the
susceptible host in the initiation and progression of periodontal disease (s) has emerged …

During recent years, considerable progress has been made in understanding the
etiopathogenesis of periodontitis in its various forms and their interactions with the host …

For decades, physicians and dentists have paid close attention to their own respective fields,
specializing in medicine pertaining to the body and the oral cavity, respectively. However …

Periodontitis is a chronic infectious disease, characterized by the progressive loss of the
teeth's supporting tissues, affecting almost 40% of the entire adult population. An imbalance …

CONTEXT: Inflammatory periodontal diseases exhibit an association with multiple systemic
conditions. Currently, there is a lack of consensus among experts on the nature of these …

Medicine and dentistry interface at many levels. For example, the focal infection theory,
popular at the outset of the 1900s, suggested that systemic ailments could be traced to …

Periodontitis is a common inflammatory disease of infectious origins that often evolves into a
chronic condition. Aside from its importance as a stomatologic ailment, chronic periodontitis …

In the last five decades, considerable progress has been made towards understanding the
etiology and pathogenesis of periodontal diseases and their interactions with the host. The …

There is a significant prevalence of subjects with periodontitis presenting with other
inflammatory conditions such as coronary heart disease, insulin resistance and arthritis. This …