Periodontitis Quiz

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1. What is the perio pocket?  

2. List possible symptoms of a perio pocket:  

3.What are the clinical signs of a perio pocket?  

4. What makes the perio pocket different from the gingival/pseudo pocket?

5.Infrabony bone loss:  

6. Suprabony bone loss:  

7. Describe apical migration:  

8. One reason that surgery is often needed:  

9.Quienscence & Exacerbation:  

10.Why can the body not heal?  

11. The 2 processes going on in the body during perio are:

            Inflammation: 

            Repair: 

12. Boundaries of the perio pocket:  

13. What are the contents of the perio pocket?  

14. Draw a flow chart of how calculus in a pocket affects the root;

15. How do perio pockets affect the pulp?  

16. Can you have the same pocket depth & different attachment loss levels and vice versa?  

17. Osteoclasts & osteoblasts are constantly working. Bone is constantly formed aka:                                   , and constantly resorbed aka:  

18. What type of bone loss is more common in periodontitis?  

19.Bone Deformities=  

20. How are vertical defects classified?   

21. What vertical classifications the worst and why?  

22. Osseous craters:  

23. What might you suggest a patient use to clean their furcation?  

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25. What tooth is least likely to have furcation involvement?  

26. What tooth has the most furcation involvement?

27. Describe mucogingival involvement:  

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