THE PERIODONTAL DISEASE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH PSYCHONEUROIMMUNOLOGY - A LITERATURE REVIEW.

Aim: This work aims to show the relationship of periodontal disease with emotional and mental factors, with stress, personality and behavior and how these factors interfere in the body \\\'s response to this disease. Methodology: It used the main databases: PUBMED, ScIELO, Google Scholar, Researchgate, with the following descriptors: Periodontal Disease, Dental Stress Analysis, Psiconeuroimunology, Emotion. Results: It was verified that emotional stress, personality, behavior and depression made possible a decrease in the production of immunoglobulin-A (IgA), alteration in the synthesis of cortisol and other glucocorticoids, which would make the individual more susceptible to a tissue destruction by substrates of bacterial order, and impaired immune system. Conclusion: Emotional and mental disorders, personality, behavior and depression are risk factors for the progression and installation of periodontal disease; since, once there are alterations in hormone synthesis, vascular alteration, bone metabolism with local factors associated with disease, the individual will be predisposed to it.