Abstract
A STUDY OF the pattern of juvenile periodontitis (periodontosis) as observed in the University College Hospital, Ibadan was carried out, through a period of one year. The age group was only confined from 14-25 years, and the patients selected for the study were only those patients in the above age group reporting to the Hospi tal's Dental Centre, immaterial of what the patients' main complaint was. It was revealed that there was a high rate of patients attending this Institution with juvenile periodontitis. Further it is quite alarming to note that all the patients examined on their first visits had a clinically observable and detactable chronic gingivitis, some even transitioned to a chronic periodontitis. Routine investigations further revealed a few cases of undetected diabetes and one case of Papillon-Lefevre Syndrome (hyperkeratosis palmoplantaris).
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