Fighting the fight for healthy teeth

This is important bacause of the links between gum disease and atherosclerosis or Alzheimer's disease. There are few pharmacological ways of tackling gum disease.

It now turns out that odontoblasts are involved in the immune network producing antimicrobial peptides (alpha-defensins) chemokines, which recruit white blood cells to the site of infection, and pro-inflammatory signalling proteins (Interleukins IL-1β, IL-1α, and the cytokine TNF-alpha) which initiate an inflammatory response.

Risk factors: Alzheimer's : 
Kegg pathways Alzheimer's