MMP8 and periodontitis: In the Turkish population, a limited number of studies report an association between the MMP genotype alterations, such as MMP-1 -1607 1G/2G, MMP-2 753 C/T, MMP-8 799 C/T, and MMP-9 1562 C/T and the susceptibility to periodontitis, and it is highly possible that other types of MMPs might play a role in periodontitis in Turkish individuals, rather than MMP-3 [29,30,31,32,33].