Early detection of cardiovascular risk markers through non-invasive ultrasound methodologies in periodontitis patients

Abstract

This narrative review aims to update the current evidence and offer insight into the new non-invasive ultrasound techniques used to early identify degenerative vascular changes in subjects with periodontitis and to investigate if these methodologies could be useful to identify subclinical cardiovascular disease (CVD) dysfunction in periodontitis patients and to monitor changes in CVD risk after periodontal treatment.

Keywords

• biomedicine
• periodontitis
• cardiovascular diseases
• ultrasounds
• biomarkers
• inflammation