Author: Dr. Anjali Mishra

 🌟 PERIO-PROSTHO RELATIONSHIP 📌 POINTS TO PONDER 🔹Crown-lengthening surgery is the surgical procedure which exposes adequate clinical crown to prevent the  placement of the crown margin into the area of the biologic width.  🔹Biologic width is defined as the dimension of healthy gingival tissue, which is attached to the tooth coronal to the crest of […]

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⭐ CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS 📌 POINTS TO PONDER 🔹Pin Cushion Effect- One charged end of chlorhexidine (CHX) molecule binding to the tooth surface and the other remaining available to interact with bacterial membrane as microorganism approaches the tooth surface as pin-cushion effect. 🔹Substantivity of CHX is around 12 hrs. 🔹Substantivity of Triclosan is around 5 hrs. […]

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⭐ TREATMENT PLAN OF PERIODONTOLOGY  📌 POINTS TO PONDER 📣 Sequence of periodontal therapy: 🔹Emergency/preliminary phase. 🔹Phase I:  Etiotropic phase. 🔹Phase II:  Surgical phase. 🔹Phase III:  Restorative phase. 🔹Phase IV:  Maintenance phase. 📣 PALLIATIVE TREATMENT 🔺Following are the candidates for palliative treatment: 🔹Patients with short-life expectancy either due to advanced age/systemic diseases with poor survival […]

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⭐ RISK FACTORS OF PERIODONTOLOGY 📌 POINTS TO PONDER  🔹Risk:  Probability that an event will occur in the future, or the probability that an individual develops a given disease or experiences a change in health status during a specified interval of time. 🔹Risk factors:  Distinctive characteristics, or exposures, that increase the probability of developing periodontitis, or […]

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⭐ PHYTOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS 📌 POINTS TO PONDER 🔹Phytotherapy is the use of medicinal plants and herbs for the prevention and cure of diseases and for improvement of health conditions. 🔹Recommended Miswak stick length for adult is 20 cm and for children is 15 cm. 🔹Vitamin C is present mainly in amla, cranberry, barberry, miswak and […]

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SCALING AND ROOT PLANNING 📌 POINTS TO PONDER 🔹Scaling: Plaque and calculus are removed from both supragingival and subgingival tooth surfaces. 🔹Root planing: Residual embedded calculus and portions of cementum are removed from the roots to produce a smooth, hard and clean surface. 🔹Scaling strokes are short and powerful pull strokes. 🔹Root planing strokes are longer […]

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⭐ TRAUMA FROM OCCLUSION 📌 POINTS TO PONDER 🔹Physiologic occlusion was defined by Goldman and Cohen as one that operates in harmony and presents no pathologic manifestations in the supporting structures of the teeth. A physiologic occlusion is one that may be anatomic malocclusion but free of any occlusally-induced disease. 🔹A pathologic occlusion is one which […]

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⭐ PERIODONTAL MICROSURGERY 📌 POINTS TO PONDER  🔹Carl Nylen is called as the Father of microsurgery. 🔹Microsurgery involves a surgical procedure performed microscopically. 🔹In periodontal surgery, an ideal magnification is considered as ×4.5 to ×5 for loupe spectacles and ×10 to ×20 for surgical microscopes. 📣 Magnification Systems  🔺There are two types of optical magnification […]

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