What's the difference between periodontal and periodontic?
Periodontal
Definition:
(a.) Surrounding the teeth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The oral nerve endings of the palate, the buccal mucosa and the periodontal ligament of the cat canine were characterized by the presence of a cellular envelope which is the final form of the Henle sheath.
(2) The purpose of the present study was to report on remaining teeth and periodontal conditions in a population of 200 adolescent and adult Vietnamese refugees.
(3) Periodontal diseases are a collection of disorders that may affect patients throughout life.
(4) Periodontal disease activity is defined clinically by progressive loss of probing attachment and radiographically by progressive loss of alveolar bone.
(5) We studied the chemotaxis of peripheral blood polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) and monocytes and the production of tumor necrosis factor alpha by monocytes of patients with juvenile periodontitis (JP).
(6) In this study, bacterial flora, especially the occurrence of A. actinomycetemcomitans, in the periodontal pockets of one juvenile with gingivitis (G), one JP patients, five rapidly progressive periodontitis (RP) patients and one adult periodontitis(AP) patient, and one adult with healthy periodontium was investigated using a blood agar medium and a selective medium for A. actinomycetemcomitans.
(7) Microscopic monitoring of the subgingival microbiota to detect pathogens associated with periodontal diseases has been an active area of investigation.
(8) In the aetiology the Periodontitis apicalis and wounds after tooth extractions are in the highest position.
(9) Taken together, these data indicate that the regulation of probing angulation in clinical measurement of GAL with the TAPP is an important determinant of the reproducibility of periodontal probing.
(10) It is concluded that there is a marked improvement in the periodontal condition of these patients, and that good periodontal health in patients with JP can be reached without antibiotics.
(11) After 1 month, scaling and root planing had effected significant clinical improvement and significant shifts in the subgingival flora to a pattern more consistent with periodontal health; these changes were still evident at 3 months.
(12) Finally, the contribution of regular dental attendance to periodontal health is discussed.
(13) The spirochetes found in dental plaque from patients with ulcerative gingivitis or chronic periodontitis have antigens that are thought to be unique to pathogenic treponemes.
(14) It was shown that: although the oral hygiene level was very low and no dental treatments were performed, caries level was very low--although gingivitis rate was high, advanced periodontitis rate was low--the frequency of interincisive diastema (one subject out of 4 in the 15-19 age group), the progressive decline of tooth cutting, a traditional practice, in town people but the large extent of cola use (one adult out of two).
(15) Mucosal leishmaniasis as an oral disease in the form of chronic periodontitis with involvement of the oral mucosa is described.
(16) The objective of this study is to find correlation between erythrocyte-membrane osmotic resistance and periodontal changes.
(17) in all of the clinical groups studied suggests that this bacterium is not a good marker of periodontal disease and that it is necessary to define the most characteristic phenotypes and genotypes.
(18) This was considered particularly significant as these bacteria are generally associated with chronic inflammatory periodontal disease.
(19) Adults with untreated malocclusions suffer from more periodontal disease than if their malocclusion had been corrected orthodontically.
(20) Oral complications consist of mucositis, salivary gland dysfunction, loss of resiliency of perioral tissues, periodontal disease, and caries.