Smoking
The number of cigarettes in 1 pack.
What is 20 cigarettes?
Chronic hyperglycemia causes proteins and matrix molecules to undergo a non-enzymatic glycosylation.
What is accumulated glycation end-products (AGE)?
The result of severe vitamin C deficiency?
What is scurvy?
BOP is noted in this stage of gingivitis.
What is the early stage?
The primary cause of pregnancy gingivitis.
What are hormonal imbalances?
Ask. Advise. Assess. Assist. Arrange.
What are the 5-A's in smoking cessation questions?
A complex metabolic disorder characterized by chronic hyperglycemia.
What is diabetes?
The medical term for a pregnancy tumor.
What is a pyogenic granuloma?
After this many weeks of plaque accumulation, chronic gingivitis tends to occur.
What is 2-3 weeks?
This type of gingivitis develops slowly and has a long duration.
What is chronic gingivitis?
The number of packs smoked per day × the number of years of smoking.
What is pack-years formula?
Formerly known as insulin-dependent diabetes.
What is Type I diabetes?
The 2 to 3 mm band of intense redness in free gingiva seen in HIV/AIDS patients.
What is linear gingival erythema?
This first vascular change happens to capillaries during the first manifestation of gingival inflammation.
What is dilation of the capillaries?
The type of gingivitis involves the interdental papillae.
What is papillary gingivitis?
Diluents, nicotine, and flavorings.
What are the 3 main components of e-liquid electronic cigarettes?
The most striking changes in patients with uncontrolled diabetes that lead to destructive peridontal disease.
What are reductions in defense mechanisms and increased susceptibility to infections?
The major nutrient needed for growth, maintenance, and repair.
What is protein?
Gingivitis progresses to periodontitis only in these individuals.
Who are susceptible individuals?
This type of gingivitis affects the gingival margin and the interdental papillae?
What is marginal gingivitis?
People who have smoked less than 100 cigarettes in their life and do not currently smoke.
What are non-smokers?
The periodontitis grade for a patient with an A1c of 9.5%.
What is Grade C?
Potential respiratory pathogens (PRPs) colonizing the mouth and oropharynx of a hospitalized patient increases the risk of.
The prevalence, extent, and severity of this type of gingival condition can increase with age.
What is recession?
This type of gingivitis affects the gingival margin, the attached gingiva, and the interdental papillae.
What is diffuse gingivitis?