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Gingiva - Answer ✔✔-Provides a seal around the cervical portion (neck) of the tooth
-Holds the tissue against tooth during mastication
Periodontal ligament - Answer ✔✔Suspends and maintains tooth in its socket
Cementum - Answer ✔✔= Anchors the ends of the periodontal
ligament fibers to the tooth so that the
tooth stays in its socket
- Protect the dentin of the root
Alveolar bone - Answer ✔✔Surrounds and supports the roots of the tooth
Gingival sulcus (pocket) - Answer ✔✔the space between
the free gingiva and the tooth surface
Junctional epithelium - Answer ✔✔forms the base of the sulcus and joins the gingiva to the
tooth surface
Gingivitis - Answer ✔✔• Bacterial infection of
gingiva
• Damage to gingival
tissue
• Reversible
Characteristics of Healthy Periodontium - Answer ✔✔Clinical:
Pink, Firm, No bleeding
,Histological:
Healthy Sulcus- JE coronal to CEJ
- Supragingival fibers intact
- Alveolar bone intact
- Periodontal ligament intact
Clinical appearance of gingiva
- Colour - Answer ✔✔o Healthy: pale -
pink
o Disease: dark or bright red or bluish red
Clinical appearance of gingiva:
- Contour (shape) - Answer ✔✔o Healthy
• margin knife-edged
• Interdental papillae (IP) -
pointed
o Disease
• Margin rounded, rolled
• IP - blunted, flattened, bulbous, cratered
Clinical appearance of gingiva:
- Consistency - Answer ✔✔o Healthy - firm
o Disease - soft, spongy
Clinical appearance of gingiva:
- Texture - Answer ✔✔o Healthy - stippling
o Disease
• loss of stippling
• smooth, shiny surfaces
,Clinical appearance of gingiva:
- Bleeding on Probing - Answer ✔✔o Clinical examination
o Healthy - not present
o Disease
• bleeding present
• sign of gingival
inflammation/disease
Bleeding on dental probing - Answer ✔✔Early sign of gingival inflammation
• Precedes colour changes, enlargement of gingival
tissues
• Principle - healthy tissue does not bleed
Gingival Stippling - Answer ✔✔The surface of the attached gingva may have a dimpled
appearance known as gingival stippling
** Wipe soft tissue with gauze
Characteristics of Gingivitis - Answer ✔✔Clinical:
Red, Swollen, Bleeding likely
Histological:
Gingival pocket-> JE at CEJ
- Supragingival fiber destruction
- Alveolar bone intact
- Periodontal ligament intact
Interdental gingiva - Answer ✔✔- the interdental tissue fills the area between two adjacent
teeth.
, Gingival Bleeding Indices
- 1) Indices: - Answer ✔✔- Purpose to record presence or absence of gingival inflammation
as determined by bleeding from interproximal gingival sulcus
1)
- Ginigval bleeding Index (GBI)
o Use floss
- Eastman interdental bleeding index (EIBI)
o Wooden interdental cleaners
- Gingival Index
o Mouth mirror and periodontal probe
Gingival Inflammation
- Descriptive terms - Answer ✔✔- "Localized marginal inflammation in the mandibular
anterior sextant"
- "Localized papillary inflammation on the maxillary right canine"
- "Generalized marginal inflammation"
- "Generalized diffuse inflammation"
Gingival Inflammation
- Extent terms:
Localized - Answer ✔✔Inflammation confined to the tissue of a single tooth or a group of
teeth
Gingival Inflammation
- Extent terms:
*Generalized - Answer ✔✔Inflammation of the gingival tissue of all or most of the mouth
Gingival Inflammation
- Distribution terms:
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Gingiva - Answer ✔✔-Provides a seal around the cervical portion (neck) of the tooth
-Holds the tissue against tooth during mastication
Periodontal ligament - Answer ✔✔Suspends and maintains tooth in its socket
Cementum - Answer ✔✔= Anchors the ends of the periodontal
ligament fibers to the tooth so that the
tooth stays in its socket
- Protect the dentin of the root
Alveolar bone - Answer ✔✔Surrounds and supports the roots of the tooth
Gingival sulcus (pocket) - Answer ✔✔the space between
the free gingiva and the tooth surface
Junctional epithelium - Answer ✔✔forms the base of the sulcus and joins the gingiva to the
tooth surface
Gingivitis - Answer ✔✔• Bacterial infection of
gingiva
• Damage to gingival
tissue
• Reversible
Characteristics of Healthy Periodontium - Answer ✔✔Clinical:
Pink, Firm, No bleeding
,Histological:
Healthy Sulcus- JE coronal to CEJ
- Supragingival fibers intact
- Alveolar bone intact
- Periodontal ligament intact
Clinical appearance of gingiva
- Colour - Answer ✔✔o Healthy: pale -
pink
o Disease: dark or bright red or bluish red
Clinical appearance of gingiva:
- Contour (shape) - Answer ✔✔o Healthy
• margin knife-edged
• Interdental papillae (IP) -
pointed
o Disease
• Margin rounded, rolled
• IP - blunted, flattened, bulbous, cratered
Clinical appearance of gingiva:
- Consistency - Answer ✔✔o Healthy - firm
o Disease - soft, spongy
Clinical appearance of gingiva:
- Texture - Answer ✔✔o Healthy - stippling
o Disease
• loss of stippling
• smooth, shiny surfaces
,Clinical appearance of gingiva:
- Bleeding on Probing - Answer ✔✔o Clinical examination
o Healthy - not present
o Disease
• bleeding present
• sign of gingival
inflammation/disease
Bleeding on dental probing - Answer ✔✔Early sign of gingival inflammation
• Precedes colour changes, enlargement of gingival
tissues
• Principle - healthy tissue does not bleed
Gingival Stippling - Answer ✔✔The surface of the attached gingva may have a dimpled
appearance known as gingival stippling
** Wipe soft tissue with gauze
Characteristics of Gingivitis - Answer ✔✔Clinical:
Red, Swollen, Bleeding likely
Histological:
Gingival pocket-> JE at CEJ
- Supragingival fiber destruction
- Alveolar bone intact
- Periodontal ligament intact
Interdental gingiva - Answer ✔✔- the interdental tissue fills the area between two adjacent
teeth.
, Gingival Bleeding Indices
- 1) Indices: - Answer ✔✔- Purpose to record presence or absence of gingival inflammation
as determined by bleeding from interproximal gingival sulcus
1)
- Ginigval bleeding Index (GBI)
o Use floss
- Eastman interdental bleeding index (EIBI)
o Wooden interdental cleaners
- Gingival Index
o Mouth mirror and periodontal probe
Gingival Inflammation
- Descriptive terms - Answer ✔✔- "Localized marginal inflammation in the mandibular
anterior sextant"
- "Localized papillary inflammation on the maxillary right canine"
- "Generalized marginal inflammation"
- "Generalized diffuse inflammation"
Gingival Inflammation
- Extent terms:
Localized - Answer ✔✔Inflammation confined to the tissue of a single tooth or a group of
teeth
Gingival Inflammation
- Extent terms:
*Generalized - Answer ✔✔Inflammation of the gingival tissue of all or most of the mouth
Gingival Inflammation
- Distribution terms:
