Our understanding of the causes of periodontal disease have two major competing paradigms: one that focuses on ‘local’ etiologic factors and one that focuses on remote ‘host‐level’ factors. We provide a historical overview of local and remote cause hypotheses and discuss some key reasons why the local cause hypothesis has become dominant.
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