TCDHA Periodontics Midterm Review
2025/2026 Exam Questions and Answers
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Function of Gingiva - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Protects the underlying tooth
supporting structures of the periodontium from the oral environment
Gingival col - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔valley-like depression apical to the contact
area of 2 adjacent teeth that connects facial and lingual papillae
Gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Seeps from underlying
connective tissue into sulcular space
- there is little to none in healthy sulcus
Flow is greatly increased in unhealthy gingiva
Functions of PDL - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔supportive, sensory, nutritive, formative,
resorptive
Root cementum - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Thin hard, mineralized connective tissue
that covers surface of roots
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2025/2026 Exam Questions and Answers
| 100% Pass
Function of Gingiva - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Protects the underlying tooth
supporting structures of the periodontium from the oral environment
Gingival col - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔valley-like depression apical to the contact
area of 2 adjacent teeth that connects facial and lingual papillae
Gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Seeps from underlying
connective tissue into sulcular space
- there is little to none in healthy sulcus
Flow is greatly increased in unhealthy gingiva
Functions of PDL - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔supportive, sensory, nutritive, formative,
resorptive
Root cementum - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Thin hard, mineralized connective tissue
that covers surface of roots
COPYRIGHT©PROFFKERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
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PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED