A literature review on periodontitis and systemic diseases

Abstract

Periodontitis is found to be one of the most common infectious disease that is inflammatory in nature occurring in the oral cavity. A normal human being oral cavity contains variety of bacterias, that have the tendency to spread to different sites of the body that too particularly in the patients those are immunocompromised and ultimately results in the various systemic diseases. Maintenance of health of oral cavity is very much required and is a necessity as it is known as oral cavity is the mirror image of the systemic health of the individual.