Gingival overgrowth caused by vitamin C deficiency associated with metabolic syndrome and severe periodontal infection: a case report

It has been suggested that vitamin C deficiency/scurvy is associated with gingival inflammatory changes; however, the disorder is very infrequently encountered in the modern era. Here, we report a case of extensive gingival overgrowth caused by vitamin C deficiency associated with metabolic syndrome...

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Autores principales: Omori, Kazuhiro, Hanayama, Yoshihisa, Naruishi, Koji, Akiyama, Kentaro, Maeda, Hiroshi, Otsuka, Fumio, Takashiba, Shogo
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2014
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4270712/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25548632
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.114
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author Omori, Kazuhiro
Hanayama, Yoshihisa
Naruishi, Koji
Akiyama, Kentaro
Maeda, Hiroshi
Otsuka, Fumio
Takashiba, Shogo
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description It has been suggested that vitamin C deficiency/scurvy is associated with gingival inflammatory changes; however, the disorder is very infrequently encountered in the modern era. Here, we report a case of extensive gingival overgrowth caused by vitamin C deficiency associated with metabolic syndrome and severe periodontal infection.
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spelling pubmed-42707122014-12-29 Gingival overgrowth caused by vitamin C deficiency associated with metabolic syndrome and severe periodontal infection: a case report Omori, Kazuhiro Hanayama, Yoshihisa Naruishi, Koji Akiyama, Kentaro Maeda, Hiroshi Otsuka, Fumio Takashiba, Shogo Clin Case Rep Case Reports It has been suggested that vitamin C deficiency/scurvy is associated with gingival inflammatory changes; however, the disorder is very infrequently encountered in the modern era. Here, we report a case of extensive gingival overgrowth caused by vitamin C deficiency associated with metabolic syndrome and severe periodontal infection. Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2014-12 2014-09-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4270712/ /pubmed/25548632 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.114 Text en © 2014 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
spellingShingle Case Reports
Omori, Kazuhiro
Hanayama, Yoshihisa
Naruishi, Koji
Akiyama, Kentaro
Maeda, Hiroshi
Otsuka, Fumio
Takashiba, Shogo
Gingival overgrowth caused by vitamin C deficiency associated with metabolic syndrome and severe periodontal infection: a case report
title Gingival overgrowth caused by vitamin C deficiency associated with metabolic syndrome and severe periodontal infection: a case report
title_full Gingival overgrowth caused by vitamin C deficiency associated with metabolic syndrome and severe periodontal infection: a case report
title_fullStr Gingival overgrowth caused by vitamin C deficiency associated with metabolic syndrome and severe periodontal infection: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Gingival overgrowth caused by vitamin C deficiency associated with metabolic syndrome and severe periodontal infection: a case report
title_short Gingival overgrowth caused by vitamin C deficiency associated with metabolic syndrome and severe periodontal infection: a case report
title_sort gingival overgrowth caused by vitamin c deficiency associated with metabolic syndrome and severe periodontal infection: a case report
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4270712/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25548632
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.114
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