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Key Takeaways Introduction For decades, the clinical approach to periodontal disease has followed a fundamentally adversarial logic: identify the harmful bacteria, remove them mechanically, and where necessary suppress them chemically. Scaling and root planing, chlorhexidine, systemic and local antibiotics —…
Key Takeaways Introduction Alzheimer’s disease affects an estimated 55 million people worldwide. It is, for most of those affected, untreatable in any meaningful sense — a slow, irreversible deterioration against which medicine has made frustratingly little progress. The drugs approved…
Key Takeaways Introduction Of all the systemic associations linked to periodontal disease, the relationship with diabetes is the best established, the most mechanistically understood, and the most clinically actionable. Unlike some areas of periodontal medicine where causality remains contested, the…
Key Takeaways The Moment the World Saw Viewers watched as New Jersey Devils forward Jack Hughes scored the heroic winning goal at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics on Sunday — and perhaps in even greater awe as he did so with…
The death of Margaret O’Doherty — a 72-year-old patient who suffered a fatal cardiac arrest midway through a seven-implant procedure under conscious sedation at a Dublin specialist clinic in August 2020 — has concluded in the civil courts following a…
Key Takeaways Introduction For years, the connection between oral health and systemic disease has occupied an intriguing but contested corner of the research literature. The mechanistic logic has always been compelling: the mouth is not a sealed compartment. Oral bacteria…
