If you’ve been told you have gum disease, or you’ve noticed signs like bleeding, bad breath, gum recession, or just want to have a better understanding of your individualized risk factors, salivary ...

Organized dentistry needs to develop updated treatment- and outcome-based guidance for periodontal therapy to avoid providing inadequate care to patients, according to a guest editorial published on ...

Background: Glycemic control is vital in the care of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and is significantly associated with the incidence of clinical complications. This Bayesian network analysis was ...

Periodontal treatment doesn't improve glycemic control among patients with type 2 diabetes who have advanced chronic periodontitis, a new randomized clinical trial has found. The results were ...

New trial results show that intense gum disease treatment reduces how much the carotid artery narrows in otherwise healthy individuals. This suggests oral health should be taken seriously as a ...

There’s a tension in modern periodontics that we don’t talk about enough. A clinical paradox. We have our primary enemy in sight: a pathogenic biofilm that destroys the structures holding teeth in ...

Investigators conducted a review of 21 studies on the effects of a gum disease treatment on various rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease activity measures. There is some evidence that periodontal ...

Patients with Type 2 diabetes and periodontal disease who receive periodontal therapy see levels of oxidative stress, a condition in which antioxidant levels are lower than normal, reduced to the same ...