The Oral Inflammation Score
What is the Oral Inflammation Score?
The Oral Inflammation Score is a simple calculation that you can use to clearly articulate disease progression and the need for periodontal management to your patients.
Why use it?
Enhance patient understanding
Encourage action
Track progress
Enhance patient understanding
A straightforward scoring system ensures that the results of dental examinations are clear and digestible for patients.
Encourage action
Helps highlight the importance of managing periodontal disease.
Track progress
Tracks gum inflammation and disease progression over time, keeping patients informed about their periodontal health.
Calculate your Patients’ Inflammation Score
When probing your patient, count the number of teeth they have and the number of sites that exhibit a pocket depth of ≥5mm with bleeding on probing.
Then input the result below.
How is this score calculated?
Oral Inflammation Score Formula
Learning to calculate
Calculate an Oral Inflammation Score without using our online calculator by following three simple steps.
- Total no. of Teeth x 6 = Total no. of Probing Sites
- Total no. of bleeding sites with PD ≥5mm ÷ Total no. of probing sites
- Result of Step 2 x 100 = Oral Inflammation Score
