INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE PARADIGM IN MODERN PERIODONTOLOGY

• Main Authors: Victor LACUSTA, Ion LUPAN, Valeriu FALA
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Academy of Sciences of Moldova 2015-04-01
• Series: Akademos: Revista de Ştiinţă, Inovare, Cultură şi Artă
• Subjects: periodontitis; interdisciplinary paradigm
• Online Access: http://akademos.asm.md/files/Paradigma%20medicinei%20integrative%20in%20parodontologia%20moderna.pdf

Following the integrative medicine paradigm, the pathological system periodontitis-organ (heart)-target and the characteristic interaction pathways of these system (infectious, neurogenic, humoral-metabolic, genetic pathways) were described. It is outlined the diagnostic value of the masticatory test and of the professional dental hygienization procedure in the process of identifying the preclinical ischemic myocardial disorders for patients with chronic periodontitis. As a result, it was proposed an algorhytm for the interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic peridontitis, based upon the concept periodontitis-heart-target.