background: there have been speculations about the effects of hormonal changes and socio-demographic factors on periodontal health during pregnancy.objective: according to the lack of sufficient epidemiologic information about the periodontal status of pregnant women in yazd, this study was accomplished to determine the changes of community periodontal index for treatment needs (cpitn) during p...

Periodontal medicine is a broad term commonly used to define the relationship between periodontitis and systemic health. Periodontitis highly prevalent, chronic multifactorial infectious disease, induced by dysbiotic biofilm that triggers persistent inflammation recurrent bacteremia. There growing body of scientific evidence suggests potential implication in causation progression various diseas...

endodontically treated teeth (ETT) in a general practice environment related to periodontal parameters. Data from 360 restored ETT treated between 2000 and 2011 were collected. Dates of interventions like restorations, repairs, replacements and extractions were recorded. Additionally, general information about patients and dentitions as well as periodontal status was recorded. Success was analy...

Wide-ranging activation of the innate immune system causing chronic low-grade inflammation is closely involved not only in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes mellitus and its complications, through an ongoing cytokine-induced acute-phase response, but also in the pathogenesis of periodontal diseases, whereby cytokines play a central role in the host's response to the periodontal biofilm. Altho...

Cervical radiotherapy may leads to elevated caries risk in Hodgkin-lymphoma (HL) patients. Our aim was to estimate the late effect of cervical irradiation on periodontal status in HL patients. Patients filled out query-form, their clinical data were collected, periodontal status was examined, decayed-missing-filled-teeth and periodontal-indexes were calculated. We examined 68 patients who recei...