What is the role of gingiva in the oral cavity?

What is the difference between attached gingiva and interdental gingiva?

What are the most important tissues for dental professionals to know and understand?

What is the purpose of periodontal treatment and homecare instructions?

What are the signs of unhealthy gingiva?

What is the definition of Attached Gingiva?

What are the key characteristics of Attached Gingiva in terms of health?

How is the width of Attached Gingiva measured on the facial side?

What is the term for the tissue that fills the space between adjacent teeth?

What is another name for interdental gingiva?

What is the function of interdental gingiva?

What is the definition of Marginal Gingiva (free gingiva)?

What is the range of width for Marginal Gingiva from the free gingival crest to the attached gingiva?

How does Marginal Gingiva differ from Attached Gingiva in terms of stippling?

What is the function of the free gingival groove?

What is the significance of the gingival crest?

What is the location of the dentogingival junctional tissue?

What is the free gingival groove?

What is the junctional epithelium?

What is the gingival col and how is it formed?

What factors determine the depth and width of the gingival col?

What is the col in dental anatomy?

What type of epithelium lines the col?

Where is the col more prominent?

What is the definition of attached gingiva?

What distinguishes the attached gingiva from the free gingiva?

How is the lamina propria of the attached gingiva related to the bone?

What is the difference between orthokeratinization and prakeratinization?

What are rete pegs/ridges and how do they contribute to the tissue's appearance?

What is the marginal gingiva?

How does the marginal gingiva differ from the attached gingiva?

What is the biologic width and how is it measured?

What is the importance of the position of restorative margins in relation to the biologic width?

What is the histologic sulcus depth in millimeters?

What is the biologic width in millimeters?

What is the difference in thickness of facial gingiva between the maxilla and mandible?

Which teeth have the thinnest gingiva?

What is the significance of the cervical peak of the gingival contour in smile design?

What is the dentogingival junction?

What are the two epithelial components of the dentogingival junction?

What is the Sulcular Epithelium also known as?

What is the depth of the healthy sulcus range?

What is the deeper extension of the Sulcular Epithelium?

What is the volume of gingival/crevicular fluid produced per tooth per hour?

What is the significance of minimal flow in the healthy state of gingival/crevicular fluid?

What are the immunological components found in gingival/crevicular fluid?

What is the Junctional Epithelium (JE)?

How is the depth of the sulcus measured?

What is the Epithelial attachment (EA) and where is it found?

What type of epithelium is the Sulcular Epithelium?

What is the interface of the Sulcular Epithelium?

What is the lamina propria?

What distinguishes the sulcular epithelium from the marginal epithelium?

What is the alveolar crest?

What is the characteristic of the junctional epithelium in terms of its interface?

How do the cells of the junctional epithelium differ in structure compared to other gingival tissues?

What is the permeability of the junctional epithelium compared to other gingival tissues?

What is the junctional epithelium (JE) and how does it differ from the sulcular epithelium?

What is the significance of the high metabolic activity in the junctional epithelium?

What is the cementoenamel junction?

What is the cementum?

What is the enamel space?

What is the internal basal lamina and what does it consist of?

What is the function of the basal layer in the junctional epithelium?

What is the function of the lamina densa in the junctional epithelium?

Identify the external basal lamina in the image.

What tissues fuse with ameloblasts to form the REE?

What is the acronym for the tissue formed by the fusion of ameloblasts with OEE, stratum intermedium, and stellate reticulum?

What happens during the fusion of REE and oral epithelium?

What is the reduced enamel epithelium (REE)?

What are the components of the reduced enamel epithelium?

What is the process called when the reduced enamel epithelium peels back off the crown during tooth eruption?

What is the term for the space created between the tooth and the gingiva as the enamel epithelium peels back?

What is the term for the epithelial tissue that forms at the junction of the tooth and the gingiva?

What is the role of ameloblasts in the development of the primary enamel apparatus (EA)?

How long does it take for the initial tissue to become the definitive junctional epithelium (JE) after tooth eruption?

What is the JE turnover time in the oral cavity?

How deep is the sulcus in a healthy gingiva?

What is the depth of the sulcus measured during periodontal probing?

What is the term for the junction between the tooth and the gum tissue?

What is the term for the area where the tooth and gum meet?

What is the term for the space between the tooth and the gum tissue in periodontal disease?

What is the definition of Gingival Recession?

How is Gingival Recession measured?

What is the formula for calculating Clinical Attachment Level (CAL)?

What is the clinical attachment level (CAL)?

How is CAL measured?

What is the formula to calculate CAL in the case of gingival enlargement or overgrowth?

What is the normal range for probing depth (PD) in health or gingivitis?

What does it mean for the gingival margin (GM) to be coronal to the cemento-enamel junction (CEJ) in health or gingivitis?

If the probing depth (PD) is 4mm and the tissue over the CEJ is 3mm, what is the clinical attachment level (CAL)?

What is the effect of edema in the lamina propria during active disease?

How does hyperemia cause the gingival tissue to become red?

What happens to the interdigitation between epithelium and lamina propria due to edema?

What is the term for the swelling of the marginal gingiva with its rolled margin?

What is the term for the swelling of the attached gingiva with tissue enlargement?

What is the cause of the clinical condition shown in the image?

What is the increased permeability of JE and what does it allow?

What are the initial signs of active disease?

What is GCF and what does it supply?

What is the initial sign of gingivitis?

What are the key signs of gingivitis?

What is the role of TLRs in gingivitis?

What is the term for the increased blood vessels in the deeper lamina propria that cause bleeding on probing in periodontal pockets?

What is the cause of the increased blood vessels in the deeper lamina propria leading to bleeding on probing?

What is the histologic characteristic of PE?

What is the clinical attachment level (CAL) and how is it measured?

What is the term for the lateral wall of the pocket epithelium that has true apical migration of the epithelial attachment?

What is the term for the newly formed pocket epithelium with migrated pocket epithelium giving it a long epithelial attachment?

What is the term for the connective tissue papillae at the interface between the dentogingival junctional tissue and the lamina propria?

What is gingival hyperplasia?

What causes gingival recession?

What distinguishes the superior tissue of a newly placed implant from that around natural teeth?

What is the term used for the superior tissue of a newly placed implant?

What is the mission of California Northstate University?

What is the reference for the study on gummy smile?