"Aggressive Periodontitis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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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.
| Descriptor ID |
D010520
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C07.465.714.533.161
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| Concept/Terms |
Aggressive Periodontitis- Aggressive Periodontitis
- Periodontitis, Aggressive
- Juvenile Periodontitis
- Periodontitis, Aggressive, 1
- Periodontitis, Juvenile
- Periodontitis, Prepubertal
- Prepubertal Periodontitis
- Early-Onset Periodontitis
- Periodontitis, Circumpubertal
- Circumpubertal Periodontitis
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