Fig. 1From: The oral-gut axis: a missing piece in the IBD puzzleOral pathology as a new risk for the development of inflammatory bowel diseases. Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) emerge from the confluence of multiple determinants including host genetic predisposition, environmental factors, immune dysregulation, and gut microbial configurations. Of these, oral pathology is newly identified as a potential risk factor for IBD developmentBack to article page