It also may soon be used for protection against periodontal bone loss as it is currently being tested in mice.

Periodontal bone loss and periapical involvement.

In cases where recession is not accompanied by periodontal bone loss, complete or near complete coverage of the recession area is achievable.

It was later discovered that while panoramic films can prove very useful in detecting and localizing mandibular fractures and other pathologic entities of the mandible, they were not very good at assessing periodontal bone loss or tooth decay.

By mid-2008 onepharm had secured financing amounting to a total of EUR 8 million, and had started to build a new focus on periodontitis, based on the inhibition of inflammation-induced periodontal bone loss which the lead compound OPM-3023 had shown in a rat model.