Periodontium
The anatomical structure that attach to the tooth via hemidesmosomes and the internal basal lamina.
What is the junctional epithelium?
The progression of periodontal disease
What is periodontal grade?
The severity of periodontal disease
What is periodontal stage?
Accumulation of plasma and leukocytes into the connective tissue at the site of infection or inflammation
What is cause of edema?
Y-shaped proteins that binds to immune cells and complement proteins on one end and on the other end an antigen
What are antibodies?
The lymph nodes that drain most of the periodontium
What are submandibular lymph nodes?
A patient who is a non-smoker, but has well-controlled diabetes.
What is grade B periodontitis?
A patient that has 4 missing teeth due to periodontitis
What is stage III periodontitis?
The process of engulfing and digesting microorganisms
What is phagocytosis?
What is collagen?
The nerve that supplies the periodontium
What is the trigeminal nerve (cranial nerve V)?
A patient who smokes 5 cigarettes a day.
What is grade B periodontitis?
Probing depth 4mm or less and mostly horizontal bone loss
What is stage I?
The process of leukocytes exiting blood vessels
What is trans-endothelial migration?
A well organized community of microbes
What are oral biofilms?
The anatomical structure that cushions the tooth from occlusal forces during mastication
What is the periodontal ligament?
A patient who has periodontal destruction that exceeds the amount of biofilm deposits present (High destruction, low biofilm deposits)
What is grade C periodontitis?
A patient that has maximum probing depths of 5mm
What is stage II periodontitis?
The process where leukocytes are attracted to an infection site?
What is chemotaxis?
Most abundant type of leukocyte that is phagocytic
What is a neutrophil?
The anatomical structure one would see if looking into a tooth socket after an extraction
What is the alveolar bone proper?
A patient who has more than 2mm of bone loss over the past 5 years
What is grade C periodontitis?
A patient that has furcation involvement
What is stage III or stage IV periodontitis?
When the periodontium is inflamed, levels of OPG decrease leading to an imbalance of OPG-to-RANKL.
What is bone resorption?
The antibody that is first to respond to the initial exposure to an antigen
What is IgM?