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hey everyone this is Ryan here and
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welcome to the next series on
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periodontics and we're gonna cover a lot
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of great topics in this series it's by
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far one of the most requested from my
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viewers and it has a quite a lot of
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questions on the Part C Board Exam with
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48 out of the total 500 and will cover
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each one of these seven categories in
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order focusing mostly on treatment and
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therapy which is as you can see most
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frequently tested so that being said
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like all of my videos I'm gonna focus
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only on the highest feel things you need
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to know for the exam and while I'm
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gearing these videos for exam
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preparation they can also give you a
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nice overview for clinical application
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and general knowledge so what is
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periodontics well periodontics is the
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branch of Dentistry concerned with the
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periodontium which refers to the hard
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and soft tissues that surround and
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support the tooth including the alveolar
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bone the PDL or the periodontal ligament
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the cementum and the gingiva so before
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we can talk about disease let's talk
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about healthy normal tissue and this is
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an excellent excellent diagram that we
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can study from and you can notice right
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off the bat we have our four components
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of the periodontium those being the
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alveolar bone the cementum the
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periodontal ligament which is between
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the cementum and the alveolar bone and
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the gingiva so let's start by talking
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about the gingival sulcus sometimes also
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called the gingival crevice and it's the
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natural space between the tooth and the
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gingiva that surrounds the tooth now
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everybody has a sulcus everyone has
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sulcus between their teeth and their
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gums but when it's pathologically
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deepened then it's called a periodontal
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pocket and we'll talk a lot about
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pockets throughout this series next
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let's talk about the free-gingival more
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sometimes also called the gingival crest
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this is the peak of the gingiva and it's
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a really important landmark from which
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you'd base most of your periodontal
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measurements next we have the free
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gingival groove also sometimes called
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the marginal groove and it's a shallow
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linear depression on the gingival
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surface that demarcates the free gingiva
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from the attached gingiva now it's more
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evident this shallow linear depression
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is more evident in some patients than
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others but it's an important landmark
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nonetheless if we go a little bit
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further down we'll get to the Mew coach
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in Deauville junction which is exactly
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what the name suggests it's a junction
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between the attached gingiva and the
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alveolar mucosa
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hence mu Cao gingival Junction and if we
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were to go a little bit further down
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beyond what this diagram shows and we
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said we have this here and then the lip
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would be somewhere over here if we added
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in a couple more components to really
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flesh out this diagram we'd have what's
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called the vestibular fold at the bottom
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which would be the transition between
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the alveolar mucosa and the labial or
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buccal mucosa depending on if you're
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near the lip or the cheek so the free
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gingiva is called free because it's not
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bound down while the attached gingiva is
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firmly attached and bound down to the
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underlying bone and the mucosa is once
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again not bound down and these were
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important considerations particularly
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for oral pathology where some lesions
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appear on bound tissue while others do
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not and also note that the free gingiva
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and the attached gingiva all throughout
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here are Carentan eyes while the
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alveolar mucosa is not correct
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so the fridge in Java is cratan eyes but
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not bound down the attached gingiva is
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both cratan eyes and bound down and the
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alveolar mucosa is neither bound down
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nor keratinized so I think this gives a
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really really nice overview of the
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normal periodontium all the different
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components and how they're characterized
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so now let's talk about periodontal
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disease when there's some problem with
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the periodontal apparatus so periodontal
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disease is again where there's some
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issue going on with the periodontium and
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microbial plaque is generally considered
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the initiating factor this is super
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important microbial plaque also known as
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biofilm is the accumulation of bacteria
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in a film layer on the tooth surface and
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this could absolutely be an exam
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question where this is generally
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considered the initiating factor and
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periodontal disease so three states we
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have periodontal health there's no
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inflammation no PDL or bone destruction
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gingivitis is where we have inflammation
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but we don't have any tissue destruction
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and periodontitis or something
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synonymous with periodontal disease
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where we have inflammation and we have
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PDL and bone destruction which is known
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as Cal and we'll talk more about this in
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a later slide so let's talk a little bit
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about pathogenesis
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and I'll say this over and over again
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but periodontal disease is all about an
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interplay between bacteria and the host
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so we have step number one microbial
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challenge presented by sub gingival
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plaque bacteria and again notice how
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plaque is the initiating factor so
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plaque bacteria challenge the host by
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presenting things like
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lipopolysaccharide antigens and other
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byproducts
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as a response the we have an up
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regulated host immune inflammatory
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response so in other words the host
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responds to this microbial challenge by
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up regulating and sending all of these
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disease fighting white blood cells to
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the site of infection which causes
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inflammation redness swelling things
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like that so this alone was our
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definition of gingivitis inflammation
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without PDL and bone destruction but if
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this challenge stays for an extended
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period of time if it's chronic or if
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it's particularly potent if it's
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aggressive then we get tissue
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destruction which is our definition of
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periodontitis inflammation with PDL and
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bone destruction in effect and this is
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how I think of it the body is retreating
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the bone away from the plaque in order
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to protect itself the great paradox is
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that the body is destroying itself in
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order to protect itself and that's
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periodontal disease in a very simplified
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nutshell and we'll cover a lot more of
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the specifics later in a video just on
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pathogenesis
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all right so tooth exam this is not just
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important in periodontics but all of
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Dentistry but I want to throw in these
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terms because they're very important and
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absolutely will appear on the board exam
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so erosion is caused by acidic foods or
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beverages or a gastric acid so erosion
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is all about acid abrasion is where you
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have loss of tooth structure by
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mechanical where this would be like if
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you're using a hard bristled toothbrush
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and you were doing so very aggressively
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and abrading to structure away overtime
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attrition is where you have a clue so
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where from functional contacts with
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opposing teeth this is particularly
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evident with patients with bruxism
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clenching habits they'll get occlusal
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wear and incisal wear over time a
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fraction is a loss of two structure in
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cervical areas due to tooth
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flexure this can also be a byproduct of
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something like attrition or bruxism or
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clenching where the teeth are being
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flexed and lost and lose some to
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structure in their cervical areas over
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time and hypersensitivity can be the
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result of exposure of dentinal tubules
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and the root surfaces this is something
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that a lot of patients have concerns
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about and things like Sensodyne or
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fluoride products can be used to help
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treat hypersensitivity in some cases all
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right so after we do a tooth exam we're
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doing a periodontal exam which is
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particularly important of course for
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periodontics now these are the three
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most objective periodontal measurements
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and they all have handy three-letter
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acronyms so we'll start talking about
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the probing pocket depth and I mentioned
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pockets before this is what they are
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they're measured from the gingival
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margin to the base of the pocket here
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you see a periodontal probe this one is
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measuring in increments of three
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millimeters so if we measure from the
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gingival margin or the gingival crest to
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the base of the pocket you can see that
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this is three millimeters six
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millimeters total for the pocket depth
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so our probing pocket depth would be six
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millimeters next we have clinical
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attachment loss or Cao which I also
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mentioned previously in this video this
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is measured from the cej the
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cementoenamel junction which is a fixed
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point on the tooth to the base of the
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pocket now in this image and this is not
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always the case
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the cej is at the same part as the
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gingival margin so if we measure from
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the CJ to the base of the pocket we're
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once again going to get a six millimeter
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measurement so our Cal is six
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millimeters and bleeding on probing or
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Bo P is actually the best measure of
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inflammation and periodontal tissues and
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this is when you go you probe a site
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you're going to make a measurement for
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your PPD and your Cal
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it's bleeding a little bit or maybe a
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lot however much if it is bleeding then
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we have a positive recording of Bo P so
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we would say if the patient had been
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bleeding from this site after we probed
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then we would say there's a positive Bo
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P at the site alright so let's do a
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couple more examples we've already
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talked about the middle example that was
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in the last slide we had our PPD of
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6-hour Cal of six let's talk about this
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one next so if we were to measure again
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let's start with the pocket depth from
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gingival margin to the base of the
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pocket now let's say that would be about
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four millimeters now how about the
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clinical attachment loss though the cej
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is a fixed landmark and it's actually in
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the same place as it was in the middle
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example and the base of the pocket is in
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the same place as it was in the middle
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example so if we were to measure from
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cej to the base of the pocket
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we'll get that same six millimeter
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measurement now another equation that
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can sometimes help with some of these
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examples is clinical attachment losses
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equal to the probing pocket depth plus
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the amount of gingival recession so like
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in this example we had our pocket depth
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of four millimeters and you notice there
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was two millimeters of gingival
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recession where we had exposed root
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surface so if we add four plus two we
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get six millimeters of clinical
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attachment loss now for the example on
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the right this one's very different and
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we actually have some swelling of the
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gingiva and there is this almost
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negative
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recession so let's do our probing pocket
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depth first if we went from gingival
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margin to the base of the pocket that
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would be about nine millimeters but now
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how about clinical attachment loss well
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you might have noticed the CJS in the
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same exact spot as it is in these two
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examples as is the base of the pocket so
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the clinical attachment loss is going to
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be the same
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we have a probing pocket depth of nine
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clinical attachment loss of six now you
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could also this equation works for all
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three of these examples you could use it
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on the right example and you'd say the
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pocket depth is nine millimeters there's
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negative recession it would be negative
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three and you get your six millimeters
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so it's a bit more roundabout in that
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example but it can be handy to keep in
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your back pocket now these are some
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additional periodontal measurements we
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have gingival recession which we've
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talked about this is measured from the
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cej to the gingival margin and you have
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exposure of root surface due to apical
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shift of the gingival margin alveolar
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bone loss is a radiographic measurement
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which we'll cover in the next video but
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it's not quite reliable as we'll soon
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see
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separation indicates large number of
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neutrophils in the pocket this is the
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expression of pus from a pocket on
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measurements mobility could be due to
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the loss of periodontal support a
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traumatic occlusion or the combination
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of both and for occasion involvement
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would be bone loss at the branching
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point of a tooth root and we'll talk a
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lot about vacation in our next video on
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classifications and finally oral exam is
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important to talking to the patient
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about their home care how much they're
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brushing how much they're flossing and
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if they're doing it properly and you can
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measure this by local factors like the
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presence of plaque and calculus
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inflammation is something we're looking
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at based on redness swelling and
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bleeding on probing and destruction of
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periodontal tissues we measure by the
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probing pocket depths the clinical
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attachment loss alveolar bone loss
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tooth mobility and firk asian
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involvement so that's it for this first
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video I hope you found it very helpful
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in starting our journey into the world
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of periodontics thank you so much for
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watching everyone we'll see you all in
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the next video