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The host defensive mechanisms preventing pathogens from invading the tissues. These defense mechanisms include physical and biochemical barriers such as the skin, enzymes in secretions (e.g., tears), immunoglobulins, gastric acid, cilia, and mucus.  

A drug such as low‐dose doxycycline that reduces the clinical signs and symptoms and the progression of periodontitis by modifying a key element or pathway of the host response to the infection.  

Therapy designed to alter the host response to bacteria by reducing the destructive aspects of the inflammatory response.  

Chemical messenger secreted into the bloodstream by specialized cells capable of synthesizing and secreting them in response to specific signals. A substance in the body that regulates certain organs. Hormones such as gastrin help in breaking down food. Some hormones come from cells in the stomach and small intestine. A discrete chemical substance secreted into…

Any plane passing through the body at right angles to both the median and frontal planes, thus dividing the body into upper and lower parts; in dentistry, the plane passing through a tooth at right angles to its long axis. Level to the ground. A transverse plane at right angles to the vertical axis of…

Overjet. The projection of the maxillary anterior or posterior teeth beyond their antagonists in a horizontal direction.  

Horizontal surgical cut in bone.  

Homogeneous graft, homologous graft. A graft taken from one human subject and transplanted into another. The graft of an organ or tissue from a donor to a recipient of the same species, e.g. from one person to another. Tissue from one person transplanted to another person of the same species but of different genetic makeup.…

A root‐form dental implant with a central internal channel penetrating the implant body from/at its apical aspect.  

The study of pathological changes within the structures of tissues at the microscopic level. The branch of medical science that studies the microscopic structure, composition, and anatomy of diseased tissues. The exploration of pathological tissues at a minuscule scale. Histopathology is a subfield of histology that focuses on the impact of disease on the microscopic…