Evidence suggests a high-risk association between periodontal disease and coronary heart disease. Oral inflammation and its potential to escalate the systemic inflammatory response leading to atherogenesis has been well explained in published literature. The aim of this scoping review is to highlight the inflammatory mechanisms involved in the risk associations for oral - heart axis.
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