Hi!
I am a Periodontist, writing a paper on different methods for the restoration of deeply decayed or fractured teeth.
My problem is the following: As a believe, caries is under normal circumstances not found in direct contact to the alveolar bone, but ist shielded from the latter by at least a zone of connective tissue attachment (concept of the biologic width). In theory, if a caries closes to the bone, the bone will resorb and expose more cementum with perpendicular fibres connecting into the gingival tissue.
I am struggeling however, to find a reference (paper or book) to this phenomenon.
Does anybody know an article, book chapter or anything I can quote on this one (or am I all wrong and craies next to bone is commenly found after all?)
Thanks!
I am a Periodontist, writing a paper on different methods for the restoration of deeply decayed or fractured teeth.
My problem is the following: As a believe, caries is under normal circumstances not found in direct contact to the alveolar bone, but ist shielded from the latter by at least a zone of connective tissue attachment (concept of the biologic width). In theory, if a caries closes to the bone, the bone will resorb and expose more cementum with perpendicular fibres connecting into the gingival tissue.
I am struggeling however, to find a reference (paper or book) to this phenomenon.
Does anybody know an article, book chapter or anything I can quote on this one (or am I all wrong and craies next to bone is commenly found after all?)
Thanks!