Microflora and periodontal disease

• Main Authors: Luca Scapoli (Author), Ambra Girardi (Author), Annalisa Palmieri (Author), Tiziano Testori (Author), Francesco Zuffetti (Author), Riccardo Monguzzi (Author), Dorina Lauritano (Author), Francesco Carinci (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Periodontitis is a disease that affects and destroys the tissues that support teeth. Tissue damage results from a prolonged inflammatory response to an ecological shift in the composition of subgingival biofilms. Three bacterial species that constitute the red complex group, Porphyromona...