Oral Infections and General Health : From Molecule to Chairside / Anne Marie Lynge Pedersen (eds.)
Publication year: 2016
ISBN: 978-3-319-25091-5
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Provides a wide-ranging update on the associations between oral infections and general health. Detailed consideration is given to the underlying mechanisms or pathways linking oral infections to general health, including metastatic spread of infection from the oral cavity as a result of transient bacteremia, metastatic injury from the effects of circulating oral microbial toxins, and metastatic inflammation caused by immunological dysfunction induced by oral microorganisms.
Subject: Dentistry, Cancer risk, Cardiovascular disease, Diabetes, Inflammation, Oral microbiome, Periodontitis
