Periodontal therapy for the management of cardiovascular disease in patients with chronic periodontitis.

CONCLUSIONS: We found very low quality evidence that was insufficient to support or refute whether periodontal therapy can prevent the recurrence of CVD in the long term in patients with chronic periodontitis. No evidence on primary prevention was found.
PMID: 29112241 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - November 7, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Li C, Lv Z, Shi Z, Zhu Y, Wu Y, Li L, Iheozor-Ejiofor Z Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research