exam 2 Flashcards
—– —— is indicated to control the progress of perio destruction and attachment loss when more conservative non surgical treatment is insufficent
periodontal surgery
True or false
almost all dental procedures would be considered surgery
true
the major benefit and indication for perio surgery as an adjunct to non sugerical perio treatment is to gain access…
to the root surface for scaling and root planing. It also improves access for plaque biofilm control.
perio surgery results in better access to
furcations, complex root surfaces, and infrabony pockets
Improving access for plaque biofilm control by the patient may require removing tissues or bony forms that block the patient from adeqautely removing as much biofilm as necassary to control the disease
true
disadvantages of perio surgery include
health status
age of the patient
and the specific limitatons of each procedure
the patients opinion of the negatives of perio surgery are
time
cost
aesthetics
disomfort
the healing after non surgerical therapies is atleast
4 weeks
the amount of pocket reduction observed after these procedures inficates the extent of surgical procedures s
that are still required
in prescribing perio surgery the periodontist carefully considers
probing pocket depth
amount of bone loss
importantce of the tooth to function and aesthetics
patients level of plaque biofilm control
patients general health
is a deepended gingival sulcus with an infected root surface covered by an ulcerated epithelial surface with underlying inflamed connective tissue
periodontal pocket
the periodontal pocket is bound ——– by the gingival margin on one side by the root surfae on the other sie by the epithelial surface and at the base by the junctional epithelium
coronally
scaling and root planing is effective in controlling perio disease to probing depths of about 1
4 mm
pockets deeper than 5 mm are
difficult to intstrument and therefore often remain infected even after the best care
pockets greater than — -mm suggest extreme loss of attachment which makes the long term prognosis for retaing the affected teeth poor
9mm
perio surgery is most succesful when treating perio pockets with probing depths of
5-9 mm
probing depths is not always equal to
clinical attachment loss
measurement from the crest of the gingival margin to the base of the pocket
probing pocket depth
measured from the cemento enamel junction to the base of the pocket
attachment loss
if the gingival margin is on the root surface as when there has been recession the attachment loss is greater
than the probing depth
if the gingival margin is on the enamel surface of the crown as in the gingival hypertrophy than the attachment loss is less than the
probing depth
attachment loss represents
bone destruction
not all probing depths greater than five need surgery
true
the 5mm guideline is only the
first step in identifying if patients need perio surgery