title: Periodontal diseases in children and adolescents: a clinician's perspective part.
abstract: Contrasting forms of periodontal disease can affect children and adolescents with varying prevalence, severity and extent, leading to a diverse prognosis in these age groups. For an early diagnosis and treatment of periodontal conditions in young patients, it is essential for the dental practitioner to be able to identify and classify the disease correctly at the earliest opportunity, applying basic principles along with understanding of aetiology and risk factors. The first part of this article discusses the classification, plaque-induced and non-plaque-induced gingival diseases, localized and generalized forms of chronic, as well as aggressive, periodontitis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Knowledge of different forms of periodontal diseases affecting children and adolescents may help to distinguish between different forms of diseases and have value in screening and early diagnosis of the disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Periodontics, ITS Centre for Dental Studies and Research, Murad Nagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Sujata Surendra
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Masamatti
authors.forename: Ashish
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: Mandeep Singh
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Virdi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D010520:Aggressive Periodontitis / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D055113:Chronic Periodontitis / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D003773:Dental Plaque / Q000150:complications; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000150:complications; D005891:Gingivitis / Q000209:etiology; D005892:Gingivitis, Necrotizing Ulcerative / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D010510:Periodontal Diseases / Q000145:classification* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D011627:Puberty / Q000502:physiology