Gingival Inflammation
The fluid that originates from the postcapillary venules of the gingival plexus.
What is gingival crevicular fluid?
The balance between bacterial plaque biofilms and the host response.
What is biologic equilibrium?
Inadequate dental procedures that contribute to the deterioration of the periodontal tissues.
A well-organized community of city of bacteria.
What is a biofilm?
The first clinical sign of inflammation viewed clinically.
What is redness and swelling?
The termination of the active process of inflammation.
What is resolution?
Antigen-specific immune responses.
What is adaptive immunity?
The soft accumulation of bacteria, food matter, and tissue cells that lack the organized structure of dental plaque and that are easily displaced with a water spray.
What is materia alba?
Early colonizers of the plaque biofilm.
What are gram-positive bacteria?
The phase of periodontal disease progression marked by the high increase of PMNs.
What is the initial lesion?
The type of inflammation that is self-limited and reversible.
What is acute gingivitis inflammation?
Immunity present at birth.
What is innate immunity?
The type of risk factor caused by an enamel pearl.
What is an anatomical risk factor?
The type of bacterial subgingival attachment that suggested to be the most detrimental to the periodontal tissues.
The phase of periodontal disease progression marked by visual erythema and clinically detectable BOP.
The first responders in the inflammatory process.
What are neutrophils?
The body system that defends the life of the host by identifying foreign substances in the body and develops a defense against them.
What is the immune system?
The cell-to-cell adherence of on oral bacterium to another.
What is coaggregation?
The phase of periodontal disease progression that occurs 14-21 days after plaque acumulation.
What is the established lesion?
A key inflammatory mediator that binds to cell surface receptors in order to trigger production of protein by the cell.
What are cytokines?
The housekeeping function of the compliment system.
What is immune clearance?
The most significant known risk factor for periodontitis.
What is cigarette smoking?
The most successful means of destroying plaque biofilm on theeth.
What is mechanical removal?
What is an advanced lesion?