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Dec 07, 2025
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HDP 501 - Introduction to Periodontics
This course utilizes lectures and problem-based cases to introduce the student to the field of periodontology. The first part of the course introduces the student to the clinical presentation of the normal periodontium, gingivitis and periodontitis. Lectures continue with a discussion of histopathology of gingivitis and periodontitis, the bacterial composition of plaque in health and disease, and the pathologic mechanisms of bacterial virulence factors in altered connective tissue remodeling and alveolar bone loss. The potential activities of virulence factors including endotoxin are described in the context of the environmental influences of the gingival crevice and its contents. The response of the host elicited by plaque and bacterial virulence factors is then presented in a series of lectures which review the dynamics of gingival crevicular fluid, effector molecules (prostaglandins and cytokines). The neutrophil and innate defense factors, and the immune system.
0 credit
Grading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)
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