Smoking as a permissive factor of periodontal disease in psoriasis.

BACKGROUND: Population-based studies have identified smoking as a pathogenetic factor in chronic periodontitis. At the same time, chronic periodontal disease has also been found to occur more often in persons suffering from psoriasis than in controls with no psoriasis. It is known that smoking aggra...

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Main Authors: Márk Antal, Gábor Braunitzer, Nikos Mattheos, Rolland Gyulai, Katalin Nagy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3961310?pdf=render