Food and the periodontal diseases

Food and the periodontal diseases

The periodontal diseases, as the name is intended to imply, are a group of diseases which affect the tissues around the teeth, the gingiva or gum, the alveolar bone, the fibrous joint or periodontal membrane, and the cementum. It is important to note that this is a motley collection of tissues, one epidermal, the gingiva, and three mesodermal, two of which, the alveolar bone and the cementum, a...

Food Insecurity and Chronic Diseases: The Editorial

Cardiovascular and periodontal diseases

Associate Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the Campinas State University Medical School. E-mail: [email protected] Cardiovascular diseases, especially those associated with atherosclerosis, are still one of the main causes of death worldwide. There are well-established risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, one of them being elevated levels of serum lipids combined with infections such as odonto...

smoking and periodontal diseases

context the aim of this review was to examine evidences for the association between smoking and periodontal disease, to discuss possible biological mechanisms whereby smoking may adversely affect the periodontium, and to consider the effect of smoking on periodontal treatment. evidence acquisition a web-based search in pubmed and google scholar was performed to identify publications regarding t...

Association between periodontal diseases and systemic diseases.

Current evidence suggests that periodontal disease may be associated with systemic diseases. This paper reviewed the published data about the relationship between periodontal disease and cardiovascular diseases, adverse pregnancy outcomes, diabetes and respiratory diseases, focusing on studies conducted in the Brazilian population. Only a few studies were found in the literature focusing on Bra...