The advent of personalized periodontics offers a stimulating move towards a medical model of disease management, namely identifying the individual as the central component. Through defining lifestyle, behavioral, and genetic factors, and how these interact at the individual level to modify the clinical manifestation of the periodontal diseases, will become an integral part of everyday clinical practice. Personalization of oral care for managing oral infectious diseases, such as periodontitis, is currently more predictable through the diagnostics and preventive strategies.
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