periodontal disease

1. 1.

   a disease that attacks the gum and bone and around the teeth

   Synonymsperiodontitis

   Broaderdisease

   Narrowerpyorrheaalveolar resorptiongingivitisulatrophia

Questions about periodontal disease

What does periodontal disease mean?

periodontal disease means "a disease that attacks the gum and bone and around the teeth".

What is another word for periodontal disease?

Close synonyms include periodontitis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is periodontal disease a common word?

periodontal disease is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.