ADVANCES IN PERIODONTAL DIAGNOSIS 1 - TRADITIONAL CLINICAL METHODS OFDIAGNOSIS

This series will consider the limitations of traditional periodontal d iagnostic techniques and the recent advances which have sought to over come them. It will cover improvements in probing and radiographic tech niques and also discusses the attempts to find bacterial or tissue-der ived markers which will diagnose or predict periodontal disease activi ty. The first paper describes the traditional methods of periodontal d iagnosis.