Oral Inflammations and Systemic Diseases

The book presents a collection of 10 articles published in a Special Issue entitled Oral Inflammations and Systemic Diseases in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067) in the section Molecular Pathology Diagnostics and Therapeutics. The oral inflammations that are covered in this issue consist of dental caries periodontitis and gingivitis with a preponderance of periodontitis. Periodontitis is clearly a bacterial disease; however it is not an infectious disease in the classical sense because it results from complex interactions between the commensal microbiota host susceptibility and environmental factors such as diet and smoking. The human mouth contains one of the most diverse microbiomes in the human body comprising viruses fungi protozoa archaea and bacteria. The peer-reviewed articles of the book consist of original and review papers focused on the question of how exposure of the mouth to specific oral microbiota impacts systemic diseases such as neuroinflammation atherosclerosis diabetes and arthritis.