periodontology

When Was Periodontitis Discovered? Later, in 1875, dentist John T. Riggs wrote that periodontal disease is a “suppurative inflammation of the gums and alveolar process,” giving a definition to what we now know as gum disease. Who discovered periodontitis? Periodontal Disease in the 1800s Periodontal disease went by a variety of names in the 1800s,