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A long time, periodontitis was believed to be an inevitable consequence of aging and uniformly distributed in population. This age old belief was again supported by another belief that disease severity was directly proportional to plaque levels. But in the mid 1990’s early insight about complex diseases like periodontitis, led to new conceptual models of pathogenesis. In recent years, the role of microorganisms as the principle etiologic factor in periodontal diseases has gained new perspectives. Periodontal disease is a multifactorial and complex disease which is characterized by an upregulated or maladapted immune inflammatory response to bacterial plaque which predisposes to periodontal...
A thorough, comple guide to the latest advances in the field! There have been many advances in recent years concerning the basic science, classification, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of periodontal diseases in children, adolescents and young adults. No other book to date has attempted to synthesize this new information and produce a clinical guide for the entire dental community. Leading clinicians and researchers from Europe and the United States have here pooled their expertise in this important text. (Distributed by Thieme for Martin Dunitz Publishers)
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