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Comment
. 2022 Mar;101(3):245-246.
doi: 10.1177/00220345211043461. Epub 2021 Oct 16.

Periodontitis and Dementia: A Bidirectional Relationship?

A Harding  1 , S K Singhrao  1
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Periodontitis and Dementia: A Bidirectional Relationship?

A Harding et al. J Dent Res. 2022 Mar.
No abstract available

Keywords: Alzheimer’s disease; apolipoprotein E allele 4 susceptibility gene; causal relationship; oral health; periodontal disease; risk factor.

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Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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