| Literature DB >> 25874553 |
Rodrigo Lopez1, Philippe Hujoel, Georgios N Belibasakis.
Abstract
The current understanding on the role of microbiology on periodontitis causation is reviewed. An appraisal of the literature reveals several issues that have limited the attempts to investigate candidate periodontal pathogens as causes of periodontitis and confirms that only limited epidemiological evidence is available. Several aspects of the contemporary understanding on causal inference are discussed with examples for periodontitis.Entities:
Keywords: causality; cohort studies; epidemiology; germ theory of disease; infection; periodontitis
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Year: 2015 PMID: 25874553 PMCID: PMC4601192 DOI: 10.1080/21505594.2015.1014266
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Virulence ISSN: 2150-5594 Impact factor: 5.882