TOPIC: PERIODONTAL POCKET

📌 POINTS TO PONDER

🔹Periodontal pocket is pathologically deepened gingival sulcus. 

🔹Periodontal pocket is a soft-tissue change, thus can not be detected during radiographic examination. 

🔹Biologic/histologic depth is the distance between the gingival margin and base of the pocket (coronal end of the junctional epithelium). 

🔹 Clinical/probing depth is the distance between the gingival margins to the base of the probeable crevice up to which probe penetrates into the pocket.