Talk:Periodontal examination

Probe force

The article states "The probe is "walked around" ... with a force of approximately 20 - 25 gm" but grams are not a force, they are a mass. I consulted Google to see whether gm was a dentistry standard measurement, and this website https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4229682/ suggests that it is, but wasn't sure whether it might make more sense to change to Newton (unit), for better specificity. As I am not a dentist or hygienist, I don't know whether most people reading this article would intuitively understand "gm," but it seems sensible to me to make the article written for better intelligibility for the lay public who are not familiar with dentistry-specific measures. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bush6984 (talk • contribs) 19:36, 17 December 2019 (UTC)