A common oral pathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis induces myocarditis in rats.

Aim: To evaluate whether Porphyromonas gingivalis (P. gingivalis) inoculation could induce cardiac remodelling in rats.

Materials And Methods: The study was conducted on 33 Wistar rats, which were distributed in the following experimental groups: not inoculated; inoculated with 1 × 10 CFU/ml of bacteria; inoculated with 3 × 10 CFU/ml of bacteria.

Photodynamic antimicrobial chemotherapy has an overt killing effect on periodontal pathogens? A systematic review of experimental studies.

The periodontal disease (PD) etiology is mainly associated with some bacterial strains, such as Porphyromonas gingivalis (P. gingivalis). Nonsurgical root scaling (e.