Siobhan Scarlett

Sep 18, 2024 | cambridge.org | Lewis Winning |Siobhan Scarlett |Michael Crowe |Michael O’Sullivan

Periodontitis is a multifactorial inflammatory disease associated with dysbiotic dental plaque biofilms and characterised by progressive destruction of the tooth-supporting structures(Reference Papapanou, Sanz and Buduneli1). The global age-standardised prevalence of severe periodontitis was 9·8 % (95 % uncertainty interval 8·2 %–11·4 %) in 2017, whilst the number of prevalent cases was 796 million (95 % uncertainty interval 671–930 million) worldwide(Reference Bernabe, Marcenes and Hernandez2).