7 - Disease Activity Flashcards
Early concepts of periodontitis (4)
Occlusal trauma
Systemic disease
Diet
Bacteria
Modern concepts of periodontitis (2)
Bacterial progression
Hyper-responsive immune response
Koch’s Postulates (4)
1) Organism regularly associated with disease/lesions
2) Organism isolated from diseased host and grown in culture
3) Disease reproduced when pure culture of organism is introduced into healthy host
4) Same organism must be re-isolated from experimentally infected host
Do Koch’s postulates apply to gingivitis? Evidence?
Yes
Loe 1965, Experimental Gingivitis
Do Koch’s postulates apply to periodontitis? Evidence?
Not really.
1975 Lindhe: No oral hygiene in dogs, 2/8 failed to develop periodontitis
1986 Loe: Sri Lankans, 100% w/ poor OH + gingivitis but 11% w/ no periodontitis
Non-specific plaque hypothesis
Quoted from?
Disease results from the elaboration of noxious substance by the entire plaque flora
Theilade 1986
NSPH is true for ____
Gingivitis
Specific plaque hypothesis
Quoted from?
Disease results from only certain plaque or a relative increase in the levels of certain indigenous organisms
Loesche 1975
SPH descriptive of _____
Periodontitis
Ecological Plaque Hypothesis
Quoted from?
Subgingival environment selects the specific microbial composition
Bartold and Van Dyke 2013
Socransky’s modifications of Koch’s postulates
Putative pathogens in close proximity to lesion
Virulence factors necessary
Implantation induces disease characteristics
Elimination induces improvement
Pg virulence factors
Implantation –> disease?
Capsular polysaccharide
Gingipain
Long/short fimbriae
Implantation leads to disease in the presence of other bacteria
Pg study in germ free mice
By who?
Germ free + Pg –> no disease
Mice w/ existing biome + Pg –> periodontal destruction
Hajishengallis 2011
Red complex species
Porphymonas gingivalis
Treponema denticola
Tannerella forsythia
Orange complex species
P. intermedia P. nigrescens P. micros F. nucleatum E. nodatum C. showae C. rectus
Location of bacteria in sulcus
Gram + rods/cocci = enamel/root
Gram - and motile = sulcular epithelium
Purpose of biofilm
Communal survival
Metabolic cooperation
Resist host defenses
Resist antimicrobials and antibiotics
Virulence factor definition
Unique property that permits a bacterial species to:
Colonize target organ
Defend against host
Cause tissue damage
2 categories of VFs
1) Enable colonization
2) Cause tissue destruction
VF for colonization
Fimbriae
VF for tissue destruction
1) Direct –> collagenase
2) Induce release of biological mediators from tissue –> LPS