Histomorphometric analysis of gingival tissue in smokers and nonsmokers

• मुख्य लेखकों: Mundoor Manjunath Dayakar (लेखक), Jitendra Kumar (लेखक), Gurpur Prakash Pai (लेखक), Srikant Natarajan (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: article
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Background: Smoking has been recognized as a major risk factor for periodontal diseases. Periodontal diseases are known to cause inflammatory vascular and epithelial changes in the gingiva on its own even in the absence of smoking. Hence, the present study is conducted to compare the epithelial and...