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Abstract
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.
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- Early-Onset Periodontitis
- Juvenile Periodontitis
- Periodontitis, Circumpubertal
- Periodontitis, Juvenile
- Periodontitis, Prepubertal
- Prepubertal Periodontitis
- Circumpubertal Periodontitis
- Early Onset Periodontitis
- Early-Onset Periodontitides
- Juvenile Periodontitides
- Periodontitides, Early-Onset
- Periodontitides, Juvenile
- Periodontitis, Aggressive
- Periodontitis, Early-Onset
- Periodontitis, Aggressive, 1
- Periodontosis
- Periodontoses
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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Indexing Annotation
do not confuse entry term PERIODONTOSIS with "periodontosis" seen in foreign lit, meaning "periodontal disease" and indexed under PERIODONTAL DISEASES
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History Note
2009 (1997); use PERIODONTOSIS 1984-1996, use PERIODONTAL DISEASES 1966-1983
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- Periodontal Diseases (1966-1983)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Aggressive Periodontitis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D010520. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D010520
- Aggressive Periodontitis. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggressive_periodontitis
- Aggressive Periodontitis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4692285