Michele Patel

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1 Introduction Periodontitis affects more than 64 million US adults (Eke et al. 2012), leading to bone and tooth loss. The current mechanistic models of periodontitis propose that local inflammation is a significant driver in disease progression and recurrence (Meyle and Chapple 2015), either directly via host-driven pathways or indirectly through the assembly of an inflammophilic, dysbiotic microbiome (Hajishengallis 2014; Lamont and Hajishengallis 2015).