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SUBMITTER: Van Dyke TE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7136396 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Van Dyke Thomas E TE Bartold P Mark PM Reynolds Eric C EC
Frontiers in immunology 20200331
The nexus between periodontal inflammation and the polymicrobial biofilm in the gingival sulcus is critical to understanding the pathobiology of periodontitis. Both play a major role in the etiology and pathogenesis of periodontal diseases and each reinforces the other. However, this nexus is also at the center of a significant conundrum for periodontology. For all mucosal polymicrobial biofilms, the most confounding issue is the paradoxical relationship between inflammation, infection, and dise ...[more]