19. Classification Of Periodontal Disease: Summary Flashcards
LOs
What does BPE stand for?
What is it?
- Basic Periodontal Exam
- BPE is a SCREENING tool to reach provisional diagnosis
↳ provisional diagnosis would be:
→ healthy
→ gingivitis
→ periodontitis - all new patients should have a BPE
What is used to carry out a BPE?
Key features of this tool?
- WHO probe
- has a 0.5mm ball on the end
- then a 3.5-5.5 mm black line
- then a 8.5-11.5 mm black line
How to carry out a BPE?
- divide dentition into 6 sextants
• UR7-UR4,
• UR3-UL3
• UL4-UL7
• LL4-LL7
• LR3-LL3
• LR7-LR4
- walk the probe around the tooth
- record the highest score in each sextant
What are the BPE codes?
What is a furcation?
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- dental condition in which bone loss, which usually results from periodontal disease, affects the base of the root trunk of a tooth where two or more roots meet.
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2017 classification of periodontal diseases
- What do codes 0,1,2 mean?
- What do you need to assess?
- What do codes 3 or 4 mean?
- What do you need to assess
BSP
Diagnosis of periodontitis include elements of?
Further reading links
Further reading
Guidance documents from the British society of Periodontology
• https://www.bsperio.org.uk/assets/downloads/BSP_BPE_Guidelines_2019.pdf
• https://www.bsperio.org.uk/assets/downloads/111_153050_bsp-flowchart-implementing-the-2017-
classification.pdf
Periodontal diagnosis in the context of the 2017 classification system of periodontal diseases and conditions – Implementation in Clinical Practice, T. Dietrich, P. Ower, M. Tank, N. X. West, C. Walter, I. Needleman, F. J. Hughes, R. Wadia, M. R. Milward, P. J. Hodge, I. L. C. Chapple & on behalf of the British Society of Periodontology, BDJ volume 226, pages 16–22
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30631188/
