“…When CMV was present, the copy numbers were low. The low prevalence and low copy number of CMV at periodontal sites in our patient population is consistent with the very low prevalence of CMV in chronic periodontitis (0%–0.3%) reported by others (Dawson et al, ; Nibali et al, ; Rotola et al, ) and questions the role of CMV in periodontal disease, despite the findings from several cross‐sectional studies indicating otherwise (Chalabi et al, ; Contreras & Slots, ; Grenier, Gagnon, & Grenier, ; Imbronito, Okuda, Maria de Freitas, Moreira Lotufo, & Nunes, ; Saygun, Kubar, Ozdemir, & Slots, ; Saygun, Yapar, Ozdemir, Kubar, & Slots, ; Slots, Kamma, & Sugar, ; Yapar, Saygun, Ozdemir, Kubar, & Sahin, ). It should be noted that a reason for the inconsistent prevalence of HHVs in periodontal sites described in the literature likely relates to the variability in the methodologies employed.…”