Periodontal Medicine

Periodontitis is gram negative infection that results in severe inflammation & it potentially involves the intravascular dissemination of microorganisms and their products throughout the body. Rather than being confined to the periodontium, inflammatory periodontal diseases may have wide ranging systemic efforts. In most persons,these effects may be relatively inconsequential or atleast not clinically evident. In susceptible individuals however, periodontal infection may act as an independent risk factor for systemic disease. Furthermore it may exacerbate existing systemic disorders. Patients education efforts in the realm of periodontal medicine must emphasize the inflammatory nature of periodontal infections, increased risk of associated systemic disease and biologically plausible role that periodontal infection may play in systemic disease.