The OPTISMILE Podcast 121 - What Your Gum Measurements Mean
Introduction
Almost every patient has had the experience. You are lying back in the chair, and someone starts calling out numbers over your head. Three, two, three, five. It sounds like a code, or a bingo call, and very few people ever stop to explain what it means. Those numbers are a periodontal chart, and they are one of the most useful pieces of information in all of dentistry. They are also one of the least explained.
In this episode Dr Clifford Yudelman decodes the numbers. What a periodontal probe actually measures, why one, two and three are healthy, why a four is a yellow light…
The skinny
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