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...
⭐ 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...
⭐ 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...
⭐ GINGIVAL CURETTAGE 📌 POINTS TO PONDER 🔹 Gingival curettage – Surgical procedure designed to remove the soft tissue lining of the periodontal pocket with a curette, leaving only gingival...
⭐ GINGIVECTOMY 📌 POINTS TO PONDER 🔹Gingivectomy is defined as “an excision of the soft tissue wall of the periodontal pocket”. 🔹Failure to produce beveled incision leaves a broad plateau which takes...
