Effects of Viral and Bacterial Infections on Marginal Periodontium

Abstract

Background: There are several risk factors, general and local, which favor the onset of periodontal destruction, and their knowledge is essential to their correct identification and for the adoption of a suitable therapeutic management. The aim of the study was to assess periodontal health status of patients suffering from viral and bacterial infections and to determine the eventual relationship between periodontal diseases and infectious diseases.

Keywords

• bacterial infections
• hiv infections
• periodontal status
• cpitn