Anatomy, Structure, and Function of the Periodontium
The oral mucosa consists of the following three zones.
What are the:
(1) the gingiva and the covering of the hard palate (the masticatory mucosa), (2) the dorsum of the tongue, covered by the specialized mucosa, and (3) the oral mucous membrane lining the remainder of the oral cavity?
What is Physiologic mesial migration?
Gingivitis and Periodontitis.
The most common form of periodontitis.
What is chronic periodontitis?
The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events (including disease), and the application of this study to the control of disease and other health problems.
What is epidemiology?
The normal periodontium consists of four principal components.
What are the gingiva, periodontal ligament, cementum, and alveolar bone?
Part of the periodontium that thins and has decreased keratinization with age.
What is the Gingival epithelium?
The severity and complexity of periodontitis in a diagnosis.
What is staging?
The primary etiologic factor for gingivitis.
What is microbial plaque?
The number of all cases of disease identified within a specific population at a given point in time.
What is Prevalence?
The principal cell of the gingival epithelium.
What is the Keratinocyte?
Part of the periodontium that becomes coarser and denser with age.
What is gingival connective tissue?
The likelihood of posttreatment disease progression in a periodontitis diagnosis.
What is Grade?
The anatomical structure that forms the base of the sulcus or periodontal pocket.
What is the junctional epithelium?
The probability that an event occurred divided by the probability that an event did not occur.
What are odds?
The two types of cementum.
What are cellular and acellular cementum?
Part of the periodontium that shows decreased numbers of fibroblasts and a more irregular structure as aging progresses.
What is the periodontal ligament?
The stage of periodontitis for a patient with more than 5 missing teeth due to periodontitis?
What is Stage IV?
Bone resorption that occurs in an uneven oblique direction affecting only one tooth.
What is infrabony efect
The occurrence of new cases of disease or injury in a population over a specified period of time.
What is incidence?
The type of epithelium that lines the gingival sulcus
What is sulcular epithelium?
What is cementum?
The two grade modifiers evaluated on all patients.
What are Diabetes and Smoking?
The shallow linear depression that separates the free and attached gingiva.
The element implied in incident rates.
What is time?