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Autoimmunity in periodontal disease
Author(s) -
Anusaksathien O.,
Dolby A. E.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of oral pathology and medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.887
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1600-0714
pISSN - 0904-2512
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0714.1991.tb00901.x
Subject(s) - periodontium , immune system , autoimmunity , host response , periodontal disease , immunology , disease , autoimmune disease , medicine , dental plaque , antigen , biology , pathology , dentistry
Periodontal disease in characterized by the loss of the normal supporting tissues of the teeth and a humoral and cellular immune response to bacterial antigen of dental plaque which accumulates at the dento‐gingival junction. This review considers the evidence for the existence of an autoimmune component of the host immune response, the possible origin of such a response and the way in which such a host response may contribute to the changes observed in the periodontium in the disease.