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A study to assess and compare the peripheral blood neutrophil chemotaxis in smokers and non smokers with healthy periodontium, gingivitis, and chronic periodontitis

BACKGROUND: Chronic periodontitis is the inflammation within the supporting tissues of the teeth resulting in attachment loss and bone loss. There are certain environmental factors such as smoking that can modify the host response to plaque organisms; hence can account for the aggressive progression...

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Autores principales: Srinivas, M., Chethana, K. C., Padma, R., Suragimath, Girish, Anil, M., Pai, B. S. Jagadish, Walvekar, Amit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3357036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22628964
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-124X.94605