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Periodontal Attachment Loss

"Periodontal Attachment Loss" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Loss or destruction of periodontal tissue caused by periodontitis or other destructive periodontal diseases or by injury during instrumentation. Attachment refers to the periodontal ligament which attaches to the alveolar bone. It has been hypothesized that treatment of the underlying periodontal disease and the seeding of periodontal ligament cells enable the creating of new attachment.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Periodontal Attachment Loss" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Periodontal Attachment Loss" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 106 publications over 27 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 2020
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.