Periodontal vs Pulpitis - What's the difference?
periodontal | pulpitis |
surrounding a tooth
of, or relating to periodontics
*2002 , Leif Tronstad, "Clinical Endodontics: A Textbook", p. 70
*:Recently it has been shown that the bacterial flora of endodontic and periodontal' abscesses differ in certain aspects. Thus, in an endodontic abscess, the number of spirochetes is between 0 and 10%, whereas in a ' periodontal abscess the spirochete count is about 40%.
(dentistry) A periodontal disease in which the pulp of a tooth becomes inflamed.
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