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Chronic Periodontitis

"Chronic Periodontitis" 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.

Chronic inflammation and loss of PERIODONTIUM that is associated with the amount of DENTAL PLAQUE or DENTAL CALCULUS present. Chronic periodontitis occurs mostly in adults and was called adult periodontitis, but this disease can appear in young people.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Chronic Periodontitis" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Chronic Periodontitis" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 78 publications over 15 distinct years, with a maximum of 11 publications in 2009
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