Periodontal health status among chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with age- and gender-matched controls

• Main Authors: Dantala Satyanarayana (Author), Suhas Kulkarni (Author), Dolar Doshi (Author), Madupu Padma Reddy (Author), Sana Khaled (Author), Adepu Srilatha (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Periodontal disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) share a pathogenic mechanism that involves activating and using inflammatory cytokines and neutrophils, which generate pathological changes in various tissues with a chronic degenerative outcome. Aim: the aim of this st...