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Dose-effect relation of smoking and the interleukin-1 gene polymorphism in periodontal disease.
Journal of periodontology - 1 Feb 2004
Meisel P, Schwahn C, Gesch D, Bernhardt O, John U, Kocher T
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BACKGROUND: Periodontitis is a bacterial inflammatory disease leading to attachment loss with the consequence of tooth loss. There exists a multifactorial risk pattern including bacterial challenge, smoking, age, gender, diabetes, and socioeconomic and genetic factors. Smoking has the highest imp...
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