LPS	Lipopolysaccharide
AHA	American Heart Association
OPT	Orthopanoramic radiograph
PPD	Probing Pocket Depth
BOP	Bleeding on Probing
VPI	Visible Plaque Index
CAL	Clinical Attachment Loss
CEJ	Cementoenamel junction
PCR	Polymerase Chain Reaction
SD	Standard deviation
iqr	Interquartile range
ANOVA	One-way analysis of variance
P. gingivalis	Porphyromonas gingivalis
P. intermedia	Prevotella intermedia
T. denticola	Treponema denticola
T. forsythia	Tannerella forsythia
A. actinomycetemcomitans	Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans
A. naeslundii	Actinomyces naeslundii
S. mutans	Streptococcus mutans
S. periodonticum	Streptococcus periodonticum
S. sinensis	Streptococcus sinensis
S. infantis	Streptoccoccus infantis
S. parasanguinis	Streptococcus parasanguinis
F. nucleatum	Fusobacterium nucleatum
F. periodonticum	Fusobacterium periodonticum
P. pasteri	Porphyromonas pasteri
A. segnis	Aggregatibacter segnis