Shelley Brown, MEd, RDH ♡ on Instagram: "We are not tooth scrapers. We are not tooth pickers. We are oral inflammatory therapists. When we treat periodontal disease, we are not simply removing calculus. We are disrupting a pathogenic biofilm ecosystem dominated by keystone organisms like Porphyromonas gingivalis. This bacterium does more than exist in the sulcus. It manipulates the host immune response, alters inflammatory signaling, and increases the virulence of the entire microbial community.