Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development
  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 11

Personalised Periodontal Medicine-A Paradigm Shift

  • Author:
  • V. Ramya1, Sajid T. Hussain1, Preethe Padmanabhan1, T. Harshitha Reddy2,
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Page Number: 3274 to 3277

1Reader, Department of Periodontics, Sree Balaji Dental College and Hospital, BIHER, Chennai

2Post Graduate Student, Department of Periodontics, Sree Balaji Dental College and Hospital, BIHER, Chennai

*Corresponding Author: Harshitha Reddy T. Post Graduate Student, Department of Periodontics, Sree Balaji Dental College and Hospital, BIHER, Chennai Phone: 9940246619, Email: tharshitha1996@gmail.com

Online published on 27 March, 2020.

Abstract

Personalized medicine in Periodontics is considered as a new paradigm shift of future health care. It is considered to provide great help in identification of etiological factors, evaluating the host risk in clinical and genetic point of view and prediction of response of to treatment. It of great support in development of diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic approach in a personalized way. As an overview we throw light on the advantages of personalized periodontal medicine over the usual conventional symptoms-oriented disease diagnosis and treatment.

Keywords

Pharmacogenomics, Microbiome, Periodontal disease