Prevalence and Distribution of Different Types of Bone Defects in Chronic Periodontitis In Bagalkot Subjects - A Clinical Study

With the tremendous progress made in establishing the relative role of the external or the environmental causes of disease, the individual or genetic differences are assuming increasing importance. Periodontal bone loss from periodontitis may be either horizontal, resulting in a regular alveolar crest at a level more apical to the normal, or vertical, leading to the formation of defects contained within the bone. In either case, an increase in the distance between the cementoenamel junction and the alveolar bone crest is evident. An infrabony defect is any defect of the alveolar bone proper, the base of which lies apically to its bony margins. Like other bony deformities, these may be detected by radiographic means, by observing periodontal bone during surgical procedures or by visual examination of the dried skull.2 Chronic periodontitis is most common inflammatory periodontal disease which leads to changes in normal architecture of the alveolar processes. These changes vary INTRODUCTION