The vascular arrangement beneath the sulcular and junctional epithelium in different degrees of cellular infiltration of dog gingiva

Abstract

The capillary arrangement under the crevicular and attachment epithelium was observed in relation to the degree of inflammatory cell infiltration in clinically healthy marginal periodontium in dogs. Both factors were investigated in adjacent tissue segments. The vascular bed was studied on corrosive specimens and the infiltration On histologic specimens stained by haematoxylin and eosin. There was to some extent a relation between the pattern of crevicular vessels and the degree of inflammatory cell infiltrate. Variability of the vascular bed was found, which was not related to the degree of infiltration. The anatomy of the vascular bed did not depend on the particular tooth, surface, arch or animal studied.