Acute periapical abscesses (PAs) may occur more often in patients with periodontal disease (PD) than in those without the disease, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Dental ...

Apical periodontitis, a chronic and hard-to-treat dental infection, affects more than half of the population worldwide and is ...

[10] IL-1β might also play a role in the initiation and up-regulation of the inflammatory response in apical periodontitis by increasing the levels of IL-6 and prostaglandin E2 production.

Background: Periodontal disease associates with systemic diseases but corresponding links regarding apical periodontitis (AP) are not so clear. Hence our aim was to study association between AP ...