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Histological and ultrastructural characteristics of the periodontal syndrome in the rice rat
Author(s) -
Ryder Mark I.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal of periodontal research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.31
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1600-0765
pISSN - 0022-3484
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0765.1980.tb00308.x
Subject(s) - lamina propria , weaning , ultrastructure , pathology , dental alveolus , medicine , crest , epithelium , biology , anatomy , dentistry , physics , quantum mechanics
In this study on the periodontal syndrome in the rice rat, observations were made on rice rats fed stock diet and followed from six days to fifteen weeks after birth, and on rice rats fed a high sucrose diet (Diet 700) from weaning (3 weeks after birth) and followed to seventeen weeks after birth. In rats fed stock diet, early massive accumulations of bacterial plaque were seen on erupting posterior teeth with an underlying PMN exudate and a PMN infiltrate within the gingival epithelium and lamina propria. Inflammatory and resorptive changes were rarely seen in the transeptal fiber area and alveolar crest in this group of animals. In rats fed diet 700, similar patterns of bacterial plaque accumulations and PMN infiltrations were seen. At later time periods, this PMN infiltrate was commonly seen to extend through the transseptal fiber area to the alveolar crest where marked osteoclastic activity was noted. Such apical extension of the inflammatory infiltrate was associated with ulceration of the overlying gingival epithelium.