The landscape in dentistry is changing as emerging studies continue to reveal that
periodontal health impacts systemic health, and vice versa. Population studies, clinical …

Seminal studies published in the 1990s and 2000s explored connections between
periodontal diseases and systemic conditions, revealing potential contributions of …

States of oral health and disease reflect the compositional and functional capacities of, as
well as the interspecies interactions within, the oral microbiota. The oral cavity exists as a …

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 …

Periodontitis is an infectious/inflammatory disease characterized by the loss of periodontal
ligament and alveolar bone. Herpesviruses are frequent inhabitants of periodontitis lesions …

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 one of the most complex infectious diseases of the human body. Individual
periodontal lesions may harbor millions of genomic copies of herpesviruses (179) as well as …

Since 2010, next‐generation sequencing platforms have laid the foundation to an exciting
phase of discovery in oral microbiology as it relates to oral and systemic health and disease …

Recent studies have identified various herpesviruses in human periodontal disease. Epstein–
Barr virus type 1 (EBV‐1) infects periodontal B‐lymphocytes and human cytomegalovirus …

Extraordinary progress is being made in understanding the relationship between
periodontal disease and systemic health. Periodontitis, one of the oldest and most common …