Professional Documents
Culture Documents
a. Gingival/false/relative pocket..
b. Periodontal/absolute/true pocket.
c. Combined pocket.
a. Suprabony/supracrestal/supra
acrestal/supra-alveolar pocket.
b. Infrabony/intrabony/subcrestal/intra
abony/subcrestal/intra-alveolar pocket.
a. Simple pocketinvolving
involving one tooth surface.
b. Compound pocketinvolving
involving two or more tooth surfaces.
c. Complex pocketwhere
where the base of the pocket is not in direct communication
with the gingival margin. It is also known as spiral pocket.
a. Edematous pocket.
b. Fibrotic pocket.
a. Active pocket.
b. Inactive pocket.
Shiny, discolored and puffy gingiva associated with exposed root surfaces.
epithelium along the lateral wall of the pocket presents striking proliferative
and degenerative changes
epithelial projection extends deep into the connective tissue and also extends
further apically than the junctional epithelium.
Bacterial invasion along the lateral and apical areas of the pocket.
Some bacteria traverse the basement lamina and invade the subepithelial
connective tissue
Pocket of same depth may be associated with different degree of attachment loss.
Pocket of different depth may be associated with same amount of attachment loss.
Area between the base of the pocket and the alveolar bone is always constant.
Combined techniques.