[Juvenile periodontosis. Note 1. Clinical and morphopathologic considerations]

The authors review a series of aspects related to the classification and the terminology of parodonthopathies. They propose to investigate some clinical and morphopathological aspects in 14 cases of juvenile parodonthosis, a form of parodonthopathy that has been accepted since 1971 (Baer). The characteristic clinical aspects are stressed, of this affection, including: the "mirror-like" aspect of the lesions, involvement of the frontal and lateral group of teeth, and the 6-year molar--a mode especially seen in women, as well as the histopathologic characteristic changes which accompany this affection. Thus, in parallel with the dystrophic processes, and the degenerative ones, there are also characteristic signs of chronic inflammation in the parodonthal membrane.