NCE2: Clinical Insights into the Periodontal-Respiratory Interface: Breathless Connections Reconsidered

Presenters

Educational Objectives

• Describe the biological mechanisms linking periodontal disease to respiratory outcomes, including aspiration pathways, inflammatory spillover, and shared host susceptibility, drawing on evidence from microbiology, epidemiology, and single-cell transcriptomics.
• Evaluate the current evidence — including recent clinical guidelines from Japan and Europe — linking periodontal conditions to respiratory outcomes, recognize the distinction between oral hygiene interventions and periodontal therapy within this evidence base, and articulate why rigorous intervention studies on periodontal therapy remain the missing piece in the oral–respiratory evidence landscape.

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CE Hours: 0.75

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