Periodontal Maintenance Therapy and Generalized Aggressive Periodontitis: Brief Review of the Literature and Case Report

Abstract

Generalized aggressive periodontitis (GAgP) has historically been known by several names: generalized juvenile periodontitis, rapidly progressive periodontitis, and severe periodontitis. The assignment of different names for a disease with an unusual combination of clinical symptoms indicates that GAgP has been viewed, by most clinicians, as a distinctly different disease from chronic periodontitis [1-3].