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Aggressive periodontitis
A distinct types of periodontitis that affect people who, in most cases, otherwise appear healthy. It tends to have a familial aggregation and there is a rapid rate of disease progression.
Immunologic factors Some immune defect are implicated in the progression of LAP. Functional defects of PMNs can impair either the chemotactic attraction to PMN to the site of infection their ability to phagocytose and kill microorganism. Genetic factors A familial pattern of alveolar bone loss have implicated genetic factors n aggressive periodontitis. Genetic predisposition for LAP suggest that a major gene plays a role in this disease, which is transmitted through an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance.
Environmental factors
The amount and duration of smoking can influence the extent of destruction seen in young adults.
Normal
Age
Clinical appearance:
extreme bone loss around 1st molars and incisors; loose, drifting teeth; no plaque or inflammation; good OH severe inflammation, rapid bone loss, and early tooth loss
Aggressive Periodontitis
Radiographic features: advanced bone loss
Localized
Aggressive Periodontitis:
Etiology: Aa, large percentage of neutrophils with slow chemotactic response
Adjunctive antimicrobial therapy combined with scaling and root plaining with or without surgical therapy. Examples of antibiotics: Tetracyclins(avoid in children), metronidazole+ amoxycillin,azithromycin. -Evaluation and counseling of family members.
*antibiotics may help but it usually slows rather than stops disease
Aggressive Periodontitis
Prognosis: Poor individuals with prepubertal gingivitis frequently become edentulous at an early age