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Management
For adults without severe periodontitis and who get routine dental care, regular scale and polish treatment does not make any difference to gingivitis, probing depths or other oral health-related problems. It seems that there is also no difference in plaque levels.Lasers are increasingly being used in treatments for chronic periodontitis. However, there is some controversy over their use:
"No consistent evidence supports the efficacy of laser treatment as an adjunct to non-surgical periodontal treatment in adults with chronic periodontitis." Tentative links to other conditions
There is little evidence linking progression of periodontal disease to low birth weight or preterm birth:
"In these women with periodontitis and within this studys limitations, disease progression was not associated with an increased risk for delivering a pre-term or a low birthweight infant. "There is recently emerged evidence linking chronic periodontitis with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: "Patients with periodontitis were more likely to have poorly differentiated oral cavity SCC than those without periodontitis (32.8% versus 11.5%; P = 0.038)". References
External links

British Society for Periodontology
American Society of Periodontology
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Lymphedema praecox is a condition characterized by swelling of the soft tissues in which an excessive amount of lymph has accumulated, and generally develops in females between the ages of nine and twenty-five. This is the most common form of primary lymphedema, accounting for about 80% of the patients. : 848

See also
Lymphedema
Lymphedema-distichiasis syndrome
Aagenaes syndrome
List of cutaneous conditions

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