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Stomatognathic Diseases > Mouth Diseases > Periodontal Diseases > Periodontitis > Aggressive Periodontitis

Preferred term

Aggressive Periodontitis  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Circumpubertal Periodontitis
  • Early-Onset Periodontitides
  • Early Onset Periodontitis
  • Early-Onset Periodontitis
  • Juvenile Periodontitides
  • Juvenile Periodontitis
  • Periodontitides, Early-Onset
  • Periodontitides, Juvenile
  • Periodontitis, Circumpubertal
  • Periodontitis, Early-Onset
  • Periodontitis, Juvenile
  • Periodontitis, Prepubertal
  • Prepubertal Periodontitis

Note

  • do not confuse entry term PERIODONTOSIS with "periodontosis" seen in foreign lit, meaning "periodontal disease" and indexed under PERIODONTAL DISEASES

Scope note

  • Inflammation and loss of PERIODONTIUM that is characterized by rapid attachment loss and bone destruction in the presence of little local factors such as DENTAL PLAQUE and DENTAL CALCULUS. This highly destructive form of periodontitis often occurs in young people and was called early-onset periodontitis, but this disease also appears in old people.

History note

  • 2009 (1997); use PERIODONTOSIS 1984-1996, use PERIODONTAL DISEASES 1966-1983

In other languages

  • juveniili parodontiitti

    Finnish

  • aggressiivinen periodontiitti
  • juveniili parodontoosi
  • lasten ja nuorten hampaan kiinnityskudosten tulehdus
  • lasten ja nuorten hampaanvierustulehdus
  • nuoruusiän parodontoosi
  • parodontitis juvenilis
  • Aggressiv tandlossning

    Swedish

  • Aggressiv parodontit
  • Förpubertal parodontit
  • Juvenil parodontit
  • Juvenil periodontit
  • Juvenil tandlossning

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D010520

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