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Descriptor English: Periodontal Diseases
Descriptor Spanish: Enfermedades Periodontales
Descriptor enfermedades periodontales
Entry term(s) paradontosis
parodontosis
piorrea alveolar
Scope note: Procesos patológicos que afectan al PERIODONTO, incluidos la ENCÍA, el hueso alveolar (PROCESOS ALVEOLARES), el CEMENTO DENTAL y el LIGAMENTO PERIODONTAL. 
Descriptor Portuguese: Doenças Periodontais
Descriptor French: Maladies parodontales
Entry term(s): Disease, Periodontal
Diseases, Periodontal
Parodontoses
Parodontosis
Periodontal Disease
Pyorrhea Alveolaris
Tree number(s): C07.465.714
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010510
Scope note: Pathological processes involving the PERIODONTIUM including the gum (GINGIVA), the alveolar bone (ALVEOLAR PROCESS), the DENTAL CEMENTUM, and the PERIODONTAL LIGAMENT.
Annotation: entry term PARODONTOSIS occurs in foreign literature; "periodontosis" also seen in foreign literature, meaning "periodontal disease", should not be confused with PERIODONTOSIS see AGGRESSIVE PERIODONTITIS; inflammatory disease = PERIODONTITIS
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 65; was PERIODONTAL DISEASE 1963-64
History Note: 65; was PERIODONTAL DISEASE 1963-64
Entry Version: PERIODONTAL DIS
DeCS ID: 10701
Unique ID: D010510
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1965/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2008/07/08
Periodontal Diseases - Preferred
Concept UI M0016328
Scope note Pathological processes involving the PERIODONTIUM including the gum (GINGIVA), the alveolar bone (ALVEOLAR PROCESS), the DENTAL CEMENTUM, and the PERIODONTAL LIGAMENT.
Preferred term Periodontal Diseases
Entry term(s) Disease, Periodontal
Diseases, Periodontal
Parodontoses
Parodontosis
Periodontal Disease
Pyorrhea Alveolaris - Narrower
Concept UI M0016329
Preferred term Pyorrhea Alveolaris



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