Targeting the immune system could prevent or treat periodontal disease (PD), a common but serious ... bone loss and sped up ...

Binary logistic regression analyses with backward elimination were used to create prediction models for both total and severe periodontitis. Model 1 included SROH, demographics and biomarkers.

In one experiment, they showed that mice infected with both periodontitis and COPD had worse progression of COPD than mice infected with just COPD. And in experiments using mouse lung tissue ...