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The junctional epithelium, or epithelial attachment, joins the
gingival tissues to the tooth using hemidesmosomes. Its presence
is critical to the health of the three underlying periodontal tissues
it protects. Consider this tissue to be the gatekeeper. Once it
is breached by advancing disease it marks the change from gingivitis
- which is reversible - to periodontitis, which is not.
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