Keywords: Generalized perio -touched up.jpg en wikipedia 2009 April 27 This section from a panoramic X-ray film depicts the teeth of the lower left quadrant exhibiting generalized severe bone loss of 30 “80 The red line depicts the existing bone level whereas the yellow line depicts where the gingiva was originally 1 “2 mm above the bone prior to the patient developing periodontal disease The pink arrow on the right points to a furcation involvement or the loss of enough bone to reveal the location at which the individual roots of a molar begin to branch from the single root trunk; this is a sign of advanced periodontal disease The blue arrow in the middle shows up to 80 bone loss on tooth 21 and clinically this tooth exhibited gross mobility Finally the peach oval to the left highlights the aggressive nature with which periodontal disease generally affects mandibular incisors Because their roots are generally situated very close to each other with minimal interproximal bone and because of their location in the mouth where plaque and calculus accumulation is greatest because of the pooling of saliva mandibular anteriors suffer excessively The split in the red line depicts varying densities of bone that contribute to a vague region of definitive bone height en wikipedia Milek80 CommonsHelper 2007-08-05 DRosenbach wikipedia en DRosenbach Original upload log page en wikipedia Generalized_perio_-touched_up jpg 2007-08-05 17 28 DRosenbach 871×325× 30012 bytes <nowiki></nowiki> 2007-08-05 17 07 DRosenbach 871×325× 29601 bytes <nowiki></nowiki> Anatomy Pathology Orthopantomograms |