Periodontal Maintenance and Adjunctive Therapeutic Agents
The most common maintenance intervals for patients with periodontitis for first year
What is 3 months?
Proposed prognosis system based on future periodontal stability with treatment
What is Kwok and Caton classification system?
The required frequency for a full periodontal charting
What is 12 months?
Alternative interdental cleaners to floss for patients with orthodontic appliances or fixed bridge prosthesis
What is superfloss?
What is floss threader?
The best way to enhance treatment success
What is good plaque control ?
A disclosing tablet is given and this measurement is used for patient education, motivation, and goal setting
What is a plaque score ?
DAILY DOUBLE
The periodontal prognosis that suggests extraction of teeth
What is hopeless?
Calculated as the probe depth plus the gingival margin-to-CEJ measurement
What is clinical attachment level ?
Brushing technique popular among periodontists which exhibits sulcular brushing. The bristles are angled toward the gingival margin at a 45-degree angle and gently introduced into the sulcus. The brush is then moved in a short vibratory stroke
What is the Bass method ?
The most common problem with maintenance patients
What is compliance?
Another name used to describe Periodontal Maintenance
What is Supportive Periodontal Therapy ?
The teeth prognosis for McGuire and Nunn that includes 50% attachment loss and Class II furcation involvement
What is a poor prognosis?
Indicates inflamed sites in response to gentle manipulation of the pocket walls
What is bleeding on probing ?
The tool used to detect subgingival calculus
What is the 11/12 explorer ?
During this phase of treatment, the goal is to prevent the progression of disease in periodontally treated patient and preserve existing periodontium
What is maintenance?
The ideal prescription for a patient with formerly known aggressive juvenile periodontitis
What is combination of Amoxicillin and Metronidazole
Patient related risk factor for periodontal disease progression that leads to a shift in prognosis
What is diabetes mellitus ?
What is cigarette smoking ?
What is poor oral hygiene ?
The tooth can be moved 1 mm or more in both buccolingual or mesiodistal and occlusoapical directions.
What is class III mobility
The amount of probing pressure used
What is 25g or 0.25 Newton?
The teeth that are LEAST likely to be lost due to periodontal disease over time
What is a mandibular canine ?
This agent counterintuitively increases calculus build up when prescribed to treat gingivitis
What is Chlorhexidine Gluconate
The teeth with the poorest prognosis from long term periodontal maintenance
What is maxillary second molars ?
DAILY DOUBLE
Periodontal conditions are confirmed at each maintenance appointment by measurement of probing depths, clinical attachment levels, bleeding on probing, ___________ and ________________. (Fill in the blank)
What is mobility and furcation involvement ?
The ideal angulation for insertion of a gracey curette
What is 0-40 degrees ?
The teeth that benefit the MOST from periodontal maintenance
What is a molar ?