Introduction
StatesPeriodontitis
DISEASE
Edited by: Vânia Pobre, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, PortugalReviewed by: Thuy Do, University of Leeds, United KingdomCamille Zenobia, AbbVie, United StatesPeriodontitis is a biofilm-mediated disease that is usually treated by non-surgical biofilm elimination with or without antibiotics. Antibiotic treatment in periodontal patients is typically selected empirically or using qPCR or DNA hybridization methods. These approaches are directed towards establishing the levels of different periodontal pathogens in periodontal pockets to infer the antibiotic treatment. However, current methods are costly and do not consider the antibiotic susceptibility of the whole subgingival biofilm.