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In references to different works on classification and nomenclature published during the past 15 years, it seemed opportune, on the occasion of the congress held in Groningen in 1949, to reconsider the various points of view expressed since a provisional classification had been presented in Zürich in 1932 (see Sec. 15).
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* The term “paradentopathies” had been used for the first time in 1929 by Palazzi, and was adopted in 1941 by a commission of German teachers of dental medicine. It appeared in the ‘Lehrbuch der klinischen Zahnheilkunde’ in 1941 (Hammer, Reichenbach and Wannenmacher).
** Mühlemann had proposed the neologism “desmodont” as a designation for the French “alveolo-dental ligament” and the “periodontal membrane” of the Anglo-Saxons. This expression gained wide acceptance in the German and French languages. Ramfjord/Ash mentioned it in their book ‘Parodontologie. Fundamente zur Diagnose und Therapie’, 1984, p. 49
*** Intially (1949) Mühlemann suggested “Periodontologysis”. In 1958, W. Meyer (“Die Zahn-, Mund- und Kieferheilkunde”, vol. I, p. 613) mentions “Parodontolyse”, which is today currently used in French and German.
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Held, AJ. (1989). Return to terminology. In: Periodontology. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-6402-2_25
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