Periodontal diseases including chronic and aggressive periodontitis involves interplay of infectious, host response, environmental and genetic factors. Interleukins plays an important part in pathophysiology of periodontal diseases which ultimately leads to periodontal tissue destruction and tooth loss. As these cytokines underplay an important role in pathophysiology of periodontal diseases so these mediators could be a potential diagnostic and therapeutic targets in periodontal diseases.Interleukins play a major role in etiology of both periodontal diseases and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Hence better control of one disease could lead to better control another disease simultaneously if present together in a patient.

La Dra. Deepti Chandra trabaja actualmente como profesora adjunta en el Departamento de Periodoncia del Career Postgraduate Institute of Dental Sciences & Hospital de Lucknow (India). Ella ha hecho su BDS y MDS (Periodoncia) en el mismo instituto. Tiene un gran interés en estudiar el papel diagnóstico y terapéutico de los biomarcadores en las enfermedades periodontales.