Unusual Gingival Enlargement: A Rare Case Report

This is an atypical case report of a 20-year-old male patient who suffered from unusual unilateral, gingival enlargement together with rapidly progressive alveolar bone loss. The enlarged gingiva completely covered his left posterior teeth in both arches. The patient was diagnosed with gingival fibr...

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Autores principales: Dixit, Ashutosh, Dixit, Seema, Kumar, Pravin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3970442/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24715997
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/536312
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description This is an atypical case report of a 20-year-old male patient who suffered from unusual unilateral, gingival enlargement together with rapidly progressive alveolar bone loss. The enlarged gingiva completely covered his left posterior teeth in both arches. The patient was diagnosed with gingival fibromatosis and aggressive periodontitis based on the clinical, histological, and radiographic findings. The gingival enlargement was treated by conventional gingivectomy under local anaesthesia. The postoperative result was uneventful.
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spelling pubmed-39704422014-04-08 Unusual Gingival Enlargement: A Rare Case Report Dixit, Ashutosh Dixit, Seema Kumar, Pravin Case Rep Dent Case Report This is an atypical case report of a 20-year-old male patient who suffered from unusual unilateral, gingival enlargement together with rapidly progressive alveolar bone loss. The enlarged gingiva completely covered his left posterior teeth in both arches. The patient was diagnosed with gingival fibromatosis and aggressive periodontitis based on the clinical, histological, and radiographic findings. The gingival enlargement was treated by conventional gingivectomy under local anaesthesia. The postoperative result was uneventful. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-03-16 /pmc/articles/PMC3970442/ /pubmed/24715997 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/536312 Text en Copyright © 2014 Ashutosh Dixit et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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