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.
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