WHAT IS AGGRESSIVE PERIODONTITIS
PRIMARY FEATURES
• NON-CONTRIBUTORY MEDICAL HISTORY
• RAPID ATTACHMENT LOSS AND BONE DESTRUCTION
• FAMILIAL AGGREGATION
SECONDARY FEATURES
• MICROBIAL DEPOSITS INCONSISTENT WITH SEVERITY
• ELEVATED PROPORTIONS OF AGGREGATIBACTOR ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS
• PHAGOCYTE ABNORMALITIES
• HYPER RESPONSIVE MACROPHAGE
• BURN OUT
GINGIVAL RESPONSES
1. SEVERELY , ACUTELY INFLAMED TISSUE. SUPPURATION, ULCERATED AND FIERY RED.
2. PINK, FREE OF INFLAMMATION WITH / WITHOUT STIPPLING.
TYPES
• LOCALIZED AGGRESSIVE PERIODONTITIS
• GENERALIZED AGGRESSIVE PERIODONTITIS
LOCALIZED AGGRESSIVE PERIODONTITITS
• FIRST MOLAR AND INCISORS. TWO TEETH APART FROM THEM
• 0.1 TO 0.5% PREVALENCE
CLINICAL FEATURES
• CIRCUMPUBERTAL ONSET
• RAPID
• LOCALIZED MOLAR/ INCISOR PRESENTATION
• ROBUST SERUM ANTIBODY RESPONSE TO INFECTING AGENTS
OTHER FEATURES
• DIASTEMA FORMATION
• INCREASING MOBILITY
• SENSITIVITY
• DEEP, DULL RADIATING PAIN DURING MASTICATION
REASONS OF LIMITATION OF PD DESTRUCTION TO
CERTAIN TEETH
1. A A EVADES HOST RESPONSE BY CHEMOTAXIS INHIBITING FACTORS, ENDOTOXINS, COLLEGENASES,
LEUKOTOXIN. STRONG ANTIBODY RESPONSE LATER ON.
2. ANTAGONIST BACTERIA TO AA COLONIZE PERIODONTAL TISSUES
3. AA MAY LOOSE ITS LEUKOTOXIN PRODUCING ABILITY
4. DEFECT IN CEMENTUM FORMATION RESPONSIBLE FOR LOCALIZATION
RADIOGRAPHIC FINDING
• ARC- SHAPED BONE LOSS FROM DISTAL OF SECOND PREMOLAR
TO MESIAL OF SECOND MOLAR
GENERALIZED AGGRESSIVE PERIODONTITIS
• 0.13 % PREVALENCE
• 3 TEETH OR MORE APART FROM MOLARS AND INCISORS.
• POOR SERUM ANTIBODY RESPONSE TO INFECTING AGENTS
RADIOGRAPHIC FINDINGS
• SEVERE BONE LOSS
• 25 TO 60 % BONE LOSS
RISK FACTORS FOR AGGRESSIVE PERIO
• MICROBIOLOGIC FACTORS
• IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS
• GENETIC FACTORS
• ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS
MICROBIOLOGIC FACTORS
• NO SIGNIFICANT CLEAR ASSOCIATION WAS FOUND BETWEEN AGGRESSIVE AND AA
• BACTERIAL INVASION OF CONNECTIVE TISSUE
IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS
• DISPLAY FUNCTIONAL DEFECTS OF PMN , MONOCYTES OR BOTH
• CAN BE DUE TO BACTERIAL INFECTION OR MAY BE GENETIC
• HIGH AMOUNT OF IGG2 IN RESPONSE TO AA IN LAP
GENETIC FACTORS
• MAJOR GENE OR SET OF GENES PLAY A ROLE
• AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT PATTERN
ENVIRONMENT FACTORS
• SMOKING HAS MORE OF AN IMPACT ON GENERAL AGGRESSIVE COMPARED TO LOCALIZED AGGRESSIVE
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