Host response

acute inflammation

  Short lived process developing in response to a single episode of injury lasting hours or days

 Host respone

chronic inflammation 

 prolonged inflammation lasting weeks or even years, in response to multiple or continuous injury 

 Attachment loss can be: 

episodic: acute and quiescent (quiet then jump in activity

continuous: chronic  

 Perio risk factors (7) 

1.bacterial plaque

2. systemic conditions

3. smoking

4. stress

5. medications

6. immune deficiencies

7. sex hormones 

 Disease markers: Inflammation (6) 

  1. calor: heat

2. rubor: redness

3. tumor: swelling

4. dolor: pain

5. loss of function

6. B.O.P. (similar to bleeding under fingernails) 

 Host responses (3)

(all may proceed at the same time) 

 -acute inflammation

-chronic inflammation 

-repair 

-is formed by the deposition of calcium and phosphate salts into bacterial plaque

-calculus provides sheltered areas for plaque bacteria to stay

-2 types (supra & sub)