Nanobakteri: Peridontal ve Sistemik Hastalıkların İlişkisinde Farklı Bir Bakış Açısı

Nanobacteria have been described as unusually small sized (50-500 nm), pleomorphic, infectious, pathogenic entities and associated with several systemic diseases having extra-skeletal calcifications in their pathogenesis. Dental plaque as the main cause for periodontal disease minerilizes through a process similar to these calcifications and forms calculus. Nanobacteria, considered to be playing a major role in pathologic calcifications, might be participating in dental calculus formation and consisting a risk factor for periodontal diseases. Possible role of nanobacteria in periodontal diseases' pathogenesis and interrelationship with systemic diseases have been summarized in this review.