Periodontal diseases: To protect or not to protect is the question?

Acta Odontologica Scandinavica

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 161-166

  Ebersole, Jeffrey L ^a   Cappelli, David ^b   Holt, Stanley C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; EPITOPE;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOFILM; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GINGIVITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PERIODONTITIS; PLASMA CELL; REVIEW;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BIOFILMS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EPITOPES; GINGIVITIS; HUMANS; PERIODONTAL DISEASES; PERIODONTITIS; PLASMA CELLS;

EID: 0035378570     PISSN: 00016357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/000163501750266756     Document Type: Article

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