Periodontitis, caused by infection with periodontal pathogens, is primarily characterized by
inflammatory bone resorption and destruction of connective tissue. Simply describing …

Periodontal diseases are infections. They have a number of properties in common with
infections in other parts of the body, but have unique features resulting from the passage of …

Ten years have passed since a paradigm shift in the pathogenesis of periodontitis was
proposed by Page & Kornman (16). A plethora of research papers has since revised our …

Major advances have been made in our basic understanding of periodontal disease during
the last decade. Pathways whereby bacteria destroy the periodontal connective tissues and …

New concepts evolve when existing ones fail to address known factors adequately or are
invalidated by new evidence. For decades periodontitis has been considered to be caused …

Within the periodontium, the characteristic shift in microbial compositions that occurs during
the transition from health to disease has been well documented (132, 206). Concurrently, it …

The periodontal diseases are a diverse group of clinical entities in which induction of an
inflammatory process results in destruction of the attachment apparatus, loss of supporting …

Chronic adult periodontitis is a bacterially induced chronic inflammatory disease that
destroys the connective tissue and bone that support teeth. Concepts of the specific …

Over 300 bacterial species are recognized as being present in the human oral cavity (116).
New species are described as more clinical samples are examined and improved …

Background Major scientific advances in periodontology in the past 150 years have
fundamentally changed how clinicians detect and treat periodontal diseases. These …