A 13-year-old female with varying degrees of vertical bone loss at the mesial surfaces of three first molars was treated by plaque control instruction, root planing and curettage of all sites and autologous tooth transplant into an extraction site, an autogenous iliac marrow graft at the second site, and passive eruption and osteoplasty at the third site. Two siblings had evidence of juvenile periodontitis and the mother had isolated bone defects involving some molars. Radiographic records were obtained of one of the male siblings at age 9 years and 10 months and 7 years and 10 months later, as well as of the mother.
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