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Clear, responsible resources helping healthcare professionals interpret oral–systemic evidence within whole-person care.

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15 contributions

ORIGINAL 06

CLINICAL PERSPECTIVE · INTEGRATED ORAL ASSESSMENT

Periodontitis and OPMDs: Shared Risks and Clinical Relevance

Two conditions, one patient: a proportionate approach to integrated examination, modifiable risks, established care, timely referral and surveillance.

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EVIDENCE 06

PAPER AUTHOR · Giorgia Pieretto and colleagues

Periodontitis as a Modulator of Malignant Transformation in Oral Potentially Malignant Disorders

A critical translation separating biological plausibility from independent prognostic evidence and demonstrated clinical benefit in the relationship between periodontitis and OPMD progression.

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VOICES 05 · LITERATURE LENS 01

ECOLOGY · MECHANISM · HUMAN DATA · LIMITS

The Oral Microbiome Beyond the Mouth

Martina Sansavini and Julia M. Sobczyńska connect four papers and ask how far current oral–systemic microbiome evidence allows us to go.

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ORIGINAL 05

ORAL MICROBIOME · NEUROINFLAMMATION · CAUSALITY

The oral microbiome–brain axis

Current evidence and proposed mechanisms linking oral microbial ecosystems with neurological health—while keeping biological plausibility distinct from causality.

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EVIDENCE 05

PAPER AUTHOR · Weiqi Hu and colleagues

Oral microbiome, periodontal disease and systemic bone-related diseases in the era of homeostatic medicine

A critical translation of the proposed links between oral microbial dysbiosis, inflammation and systemic bone-related diseases, with clear limits around causality and clinical application.

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ORIGINAL 04

CLINICAL RESEARCH · EPIDEMIOLOGY

Association and Causality in Clinical and Epidemiological Research

How study design, bias, confounding and triangulation move evidence from an observed relationship towards a defensible causal interpretation.

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VOICES 03 · EXPERT DIALOGUE 02

PERIODONTAL MEDICINE · SYSTEMIC DISEASE

Periodontal Medicine Rewired

Mario Romandini and Giacomo Baima discuss the mechanisms linking periodontitis to systemic diseases.

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ORIGINAL 03

MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE

The interplay between oral and systemic inflammation

From biological links to clinical relevance, with careful attention to causality, clinical meaning and the strength of evidence.

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EVIDENCE 03

PAPER AUTHOR · George Hajishengallis and Triantafyllos Chavakis

Local and systemic mechanisms linking periodontal disease and inflammatory comorbidities

How microbial dissemination, systemic inflammation and bone-marrow adaptation may connect periodontitis with inflammatory comorbidities.

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VOICES 02 · EXPERT DIALOGUE 01

PERIODONTOLOGY · CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH

The Oral–Cardiovascular Link

Professor Francesco D’Aiuto discusses what the evidence can—and cannot yet—tell us about periodontal and cardiovascular health.

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ORIGINAL 02

EDITORIAL PERSPECTIVE

Can periodontal inflammation leave an immune memory?

Trained immunity as a possible biological link between periodontal inflammation and cardiovascular biology.

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EVIDENCE 02

PAPER AUTHOR · Mariano Sanz and colleagues

Periodontitis and cardiovascular diseases: Consensus report

A joint periodontal and cardiovascular consensus connecting epidemiology, biological pathways, treatment response and coordinated clinical care.

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VOICES 01

ORAL HEALTH · MEDICINE · PUBLIC HEALTH

When the Mouth Joins the Health Conversation

Three voices explore why oral and systemic health need a shared conversation across dentistry, medicine and public health.

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ORIGINAL 01

INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE

Beyond the Silos

Why we built PerioMed Global: three perspectives connecting oral health, the whole patient and population health without losing scientific identity.

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EVIDENCE 01

PAPER AUTHOR · Purnima S. Kumar

From focal sepsis to periodontal medicine

A critical translation of a century of research on the oral microbiome, systemic disease and the limits between association and causation.

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WHAT YOU WILL FIND HERE

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Clinical interpretation

What current evidence may mean for practice—and what it does not yet justify.

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Interprofessional dialogue

Language and questions that can support communication between dental and medical professionals.

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Responsible application

Contextual resources grounded in evidence, professional guidance and appropriate clinical boundaries.