A method for measuring tooth mobility.  

The scientific study of periodontal tissues in health and disease.  

The gingiva, alveolar mucosa, cementum, periodontal ligament, and alveolar bone tissues that surround and support the teeth. Tissue that anchors...

A term rarely used to designate the preadolescent existence of periodontitis. These patients are now incorporated under the chronic periodontitis...

Periodontitis, often with onset at a young age, associated with one of several systemic diseases.  

Inflammation of the periodontal supporting tissues of the teeth from gingiva into the adjacent bone and ligament. Usually a progressively...

A dental practitioner who, by virtue of special knowledge and training in the field, is qualified to and limits his/her...

That specialty of dentistry which encompasses the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases of the supporting and surrounding tissues of...

A surgical intervention performed in conjunction with orthodontic therapy. This procedure is characterized by full‐thickness labial and lingual alveolar flaps...

Pain associated with the periodontal structures.