Contents

## **Preface XI**

#### **Section 1 Relationship Between the Periodontal Diseases and the Systemic Health 1**

#### Chapter 1 **Desquamative Gingivitis 3** Hiroyasu Endo, Terry D. Rees, Hideo Niwa, Kayo Kuyama, Morio Iijima, Ryuuichi Imamura, Takao Kato, Kenji Doi, Hirotsugu Yamamoto and Takanori Ito

#### Chapter 2 **Periodontal Disease and Nuclear and Oxidative DNA Damage 29** Ana L. Zamora-Perez, Guillermo M. Zúñiga-González, Belinda C.

Gómez-Meda, Blanca P. Lazalde-Ramos, Yveth M. Ortiz-García, Gabriela Morales-Velazquez, Celia Guerrero Velázquez and María G. Sánchez-Parada

#### Chapter 3 **Oral and Periodontal Diseases in Consanguineous Marriages 39** Metin Çalisir

Chapter 4 **Periodontitis and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 61** Agathi Spiropoulou, Olga Lagiou, Dimosthenis Lykouras, Kiriakos Karkoulias and Kostas Spiropoulos

#### Chapter 5 **Probiotics and Periodontal Diseases 73** Alicia Morales, Joel Bravo-Bown, Javier Bedoya and Jorge Gamonal

