Oral Health and Dysbiosis
A special issue of Dentistry Journal (ISSN 2304-6767).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 2172
Special Issue Editors
Interests: oral microbiology; oral health; dentistry; periodontology; periodontal microbiology; periodontal systemic inter-relationship; diabetes
Interests: periodontics; implant dentistry
Interests: biomaterials; stem cells; tissue engineering; dental implants; periodontal disease; oral cancer
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Oral health is in a dynamic equilibrium maintained by complex interactions interplaying between the host and the oral microbiome, comprising approximately 700 species of various bacteria, fungi, protozoa, virus and archaea. The inter-species interaction and the immune response of the host can cause a shift in this equilibrium, resulting in a dysbiotic state, and trigger the onset of oral diseases.
The oral microbial interaction and dysbiosis can affect the host immune response through the activation of pro-inflammatory pathways via complex cascades involving cytokines, immune receptors, antibodies and cell-mediated immunity. The extent of the host response is infuenced by the host’s autoimmunity, genetic and environmental factors along with systemic diseases, such as diabetes, atherosclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease and malignancies of head and neck. This complex oral microbial interaction and dysbiosis is also known to affect host immune response via the activation and dysregulation of cytokines, autoantigens, immune modulation and activation of immune receptors. Currently, this field is abundant with advances in research seeking to understand oral health and dysbiosis with evidence not just from preclinical and clinical studies but also with data from metagenomic and OMICS studies.
We feel it is the need to the hour to gather more evidence to further explore oral health, dysbiosis and novel techniques to modulate bacteria, host response and prevent disease. In this Special Issue, we invite papers which include clinical trials, cross-sectional examinations, and longitudinal studies, along with scoping, narrative and systematic reviews dealing with oral health and dysbiosis.
Dr. Vinayak Joshi
Dr. Eswar Kandaswamy
Prof. Dr. Dileep Sharma
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- oral health
- oral dysbiosis
- host–microbe interactions
- oral microbiome
- oral biofilm
- periodontitis
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