Impact of systemic diseases on periodontal remodeling: Mechanisms, mediators, and clinical relevance.

Several systemic conditions—including kidney disease, cardiovascular disease, liver dysfunction, and blood cancers—disrupt the body's ability to maintain healthy periodontal tissues by promoting widespread inflammation and impairing healing and immune responses, suggesting periodontal disease reflects systemic health problems rather than bacterial infection alone.

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