Biomedicines (Jan 2022)

Oral Microbiome, Oral Health and Systemic Health: A Multidirectional Link

  • Elena Maria Varoni,
  • Lia Rimondini

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines10010186
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
p. 186

Abstract

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The oral cavity can be regarded as the mirror of systemic health, since many systemic diseases may have manifestations in the oral cavity, as in the case, among oral, potentially malignant disorders, of lupus erythematosus oral lichenoid lesions, and, vice-versa, oral diseases may affect systemic health, impairing patient’s nutrition and wellbeing, reducing the quality of life and increasing stress and anxiety [...]

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