Periodontal Diseases and Systemic Disorders: What Do Our Doctors Know? A General Practitioner's Survey Conducted in  Southern France

With 39,359 entries on PubMed, periodontal medicine has a prominent position in periodontal research. Good patient care requires well-advised physicians, and whereas the dental community is informed about the relationships between periodontal diseases (PDs) and an increasing number of systemic pathologies, we wondered whether general practitioners were too. Thus, we aimed to evaluate their knowledge of the links between periodontal and systemic diseases.

Source: The Journal of Evidence-Based Dental Practice - July 3, 2017 Category: Dentistry Authors: Vinel Alexia, Vachon Chlo é, Barthet Pierre, Laurencin-dalicieux Sara Tags: Feature Article Source Type: research