Exercise habituation is effective for improvement of periodontal disease status: a prospective intervention study.

Background And Purpose: Periodontal disease is closely related to lifestyle-related diseases and obesity. It is widely known that moderate exercise habits lead to improvement in lifestyle-related diseases and obesity. However, little research has been undertaken into how exercise habits affect periodontal disease.

Expression of autophagy-related markers at the surgical margin of oral squamous cell carcinoma correlates with poor prognosis and tumor recurrence.

Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is the sixth most common cancer worldwide, and is associated with poor prognosis. Autophagy is a programmed cell survival mechanism involved in physiologic processes and various diseases including cancer. However, the relationship between autophagy and cancer is controversial.