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Volume 6 Issue 12 (December, 2018)

Review Articles

Model of Periodontal Pathogenesis: A Comprehensive Review
Kavita Meena, Sharmistha Vijay, Anjali Kapoor, Rajeev Soangra, Kusum Singh, Rizwan Ali

Periodontal disease (PD) is one of the most common chronic inflammatory diseases affecting humans. It is of multi-factorial origin where host, environment and bacterial factors interplay to initiate immune- inflammatory response that causes most of the soft and hard tissue destruction. Our knowledge regarding the pathogenesis of periodontal disease still remains unclear. The advanced models of pathogenesis will aid in further research and may help in the extrapolation of this data to clinical scenarios. Hence; we aim to summarize some of the important aspects of periodontal pathogenesis models. Key Words: Periodontal diseases, Model, Periodontal pathogenesis.

 
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