Abstract:The growing scientific interest in the correlation between systemic pathologies and periodontal pathologies, shows how chronic infectious-inflammatory diseases, such as periodontitis, have implications with neurodegenerative pathologies, cause of cognitive decline and deprivation of self-sufficiency in the affected subjects. Numerous studies in literature show that pathogenic microorganisms implicated in periodontal disease play an important role in the onset or more likely in the progression of neuro-degenera… Show more
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