TOPIC: ACUTE GINGIVAL CONDITIONS 📌 POINTS TO PONDER  🔹Necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis is a tender and infectious gingival disease involving mainly the interdental and marginal gingiva.  🔹In NUG, the...

TOPIC: GINGIVAL INFLAMMATION 📌 POINTS TO PONDER  🔸 Gingival conditions/diseases that mainly involve interdental papilla and gingival margin are gingival abscess, NUG, linear gingival erythema and...

TOPIC: GINGIVAL ENLARGEMENT 📌 POINTS TO PONDER 🔹Hypertrophy is an increase in the size of cells causing the increase in the size of the tissues. 🔹Hyperplasia is an increase in number of cells in a...

TOPIC: PATHOGENESIS & HOST RESPONSE 📌 POINTS TO PONDER 🔹 Systemic diseases associated with neutrophil disorders and periodontal diseases are diabetes mellitus, Papillon-Lefevre syndrome, Down...

TOPIC: IMMUNITY AND INFLAMMATION  📌 POINTS TO PONDER  🔹Pan-receptor defect: It is the defect in which all chemotaxin receptors are decreased. It is seen in localized aggressive periodontitis which is...

TOPIC: DENTAL CALCULUS 📌 POINTS TO PONDER  🔹Reversal phenomenon is the decline from maximal calculus accumulation. It is due to vulnerability of bulky calculus to mechanical wear from food...