Skip to main content

Medical Subject Headings

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms > Pathologic Processes > Disease Attributes > Chronic Disease > Chronic Periodontitis
Stomatognathic Diseases > Mouth Diseases > Periodontal Diseases > Periodontitis > Chronic Periodontitis

Preferred term

Chronic Periodontitis  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Adult Periodontitides
  • Adult Periodontitis
  • Periodontitides, Adult
  • Periodontitis, Adult
  • Periodontitis, Chronic

Scope note

  • Chronic inflammation and loss of PERIODONTIUM that is associated with the amount of DENTAL PLAQUE or DENTAL CALCULUS present. Chronic periodontitis occurs mostly in adults and was called adult periodontitis, but this disease can appear in young people.

History note

  • 2009

In other languages

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D055113

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 7/8/08, last modified 3/12/21