Research has discovered a clear link between chronic gum disease and cognitive decline. Alice Robertson finds the best oral ...

Is there a silent killer hiding in your mouth? For one in two older Australians, the answer may be yes. Gum disease often is described as silent because it progresses slowly and insidiously, and ...

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder that affects numerous systems of the body. It is a complicated ...

THE  bad news is that chronic gum disease, also called chronic periodontitis, cannot be cured, although most of the symptoms may disappear for months after ...

Chronic periodontitis patients showed elevated serum levels of tumor necrosis factor alpha, interleukin 6, interleukin 1, matrix metallopeptidase 2, and matrix metallopeptidase 9 postsurgery.

Periodontitis is the most important oral disease causing human tooth loss. Although supragingival and subgingival scaling is the main strategy of periodontitis clinical treatments, drug treatment has ...

Exposure. The exposure of this study was periodontitis, of which the definition required 1) diagnosis codes with periodontitis ICD-10 code (K05.3) twice per year and 2) at least one treatment code ...

You can reverse gum disease if you treat it early enough. Once you've lost bone around your teeth, it's not reversible. But you can still slow or stop gum disease with treatment and good oral hygiene.

During the development of periodontal disease, host immune regulation plays an important role, and unnecessary excessive immune regulation often exacerbates the course of chronic periodontal disease.

Periodontitis, or gum disease, is a common infection that damages the soft tissue and bone supporting the teeth. Without treatment, the alveolar bone around the teeth will gradually erode ...

Cytokine gene polymorphisms and association with chronic periodontitis Cytokine gens SNP analyzed Associated with periodontitis –/+ Year Country Publication IL-1α – 889 – 2013 Macedonia [24 ...