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

Biomedicines. 2022 Jan 17;10(1):186. doi: 10.3390/biomedicines10010186.

Abstract

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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