title: Quorum sensing inhibition, relevance to periodontics.
abstract: Quorum sensing helps bacteria to communicate with each other and in coordinating their behavior. Many diseases of human beings, plants, and animals are mediated by quorum sensing. Various approaches are being tried to inhibit this communication to control the diseases caused by bacteria. Periodontal pathogens also communicate through quorum sensing and new approaches to treat periodontal disease using quorum sensing inhibition need to explored.
authors.affiliation: Reader, Department of Periodontics, Mansarovar Dental College, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Sudheer
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yada
authors.affiliation: Reader, Department of Conservative and Endodontics, Mansarovar Dental College, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kamalesh
authors.affiliation: Senoir Lecturer, Department of Orthodontics, Mansarovar Dental College, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Siddharth
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sonwane
authors.affiliation: Dean, Proffesor and HOD, Department of Conservative and Endodontics, Mansarovar Dental College, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Indra
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Guptha
authors.affiliation: Senoir Lecturer, Department of Oral Surgery, Government Dental College and Hospital, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.
authors.forename: R K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Swetha
keywords: Acyl homoserine lactone; bio-film; periodontitis; quorum quenching; quorum sensing; quorum sensing inhibition