Periodontitis and rheumatoid arthritis: three messages from published literature to clinical practice

Abstract

We read with great interest the article entitled “The re­la­tionship between periodontal status and rheumatoid arthritis – systematic review”, recently published in Reuma­tologia [1]. This relationship, suggested for more than 20 years [2], has increasingly been reported in the last years, and two recent meta-analyses confirmed a statistically significant association between rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and perio­dontitis (PD) compared to healthy controls [3, 4].