Periodontal probing: what does it mean? | 合法醫療器材資訊網

由MAListgarten著作·1980·被引用469次—Theperiodontalprobehasbeenandcontinuestobeusedasanimportantdiagnosticinstrumentbythedentalprofession.Themeasurementsrecordedwiththe ...

The periodontal probe has been and continues to be used as an important diagnostic instrument by the dental profession. The measurements recorded with the probe have generally been considered to represent a reasonably accurate estimate of sulcus or pocket depth. Recent reports on the histopathology of the periodontal lesion and the histological features of a healing lesion, together with histological studies on the relationship of the probe to periodontal tissues, have shed some new light on periodontal probing. It is now apparent that probing depth measured from the gingival margin seldom corresponds to sulcus or pocket depth. The discrepancy is least in the absence of inflammatory changes and increases with increasing degrees of inflammation. In the presence of periodontitis the probe tip passes through the inflamed tissues to stop at the level of the most coronal intact dento-gingival fibers, approximately 0.3-0....