GINGIVAL ENLARGEMENT for dental students

1. GINGIVAL ENLARGEMENT

2. CONTENTS
•DEFINITION
•ETIOLOGY
•CLASSIFICATION

3. DEFINITION
• GINGIVAL ENLARGEMENT REFERS TO EXCESSIVE GROWTH OF
GINGIVA, AND MAY ALSO BE KNOWN AS GINGIVAL HYPERPLASIA OR
HYPERTROPHY.
• THE CURRENT CLINICAL DISCREPTIVE TERMINOLOGY USED TO
DESCRIBE INCREASE IN SIZE OF GINGIVA IS GINGIVAL ENLARGEMENT
AND GINGIVAL OVERGROWTH.

4. WHAT ARE THE POSSIBLE CAUSES?

5. CLASIFICATION
ACCORDING TO LOCATION
AND DISTRIBUTION
ACCORDING TO THE DEGREE
OF GINGIVAL ENLARGEMENT
ACCORDING TO ETIOLOGICAL
AND PATHOLOGICAL CHANGES

7. ACCORDING TO THE DEGREE OF GINGIVAL
ENLARGEMENT

10. GINGIVAL ABSCESS

11. PERIODONTAL ABSCESS

12. PERICORONAL ABSCESS

13. PERIAPICAL ABSCESS

15. LOCALIZED

16. GENERALIZED

17. DISCRETE OR TUMOUR LIKE

19. PHENYTOIN

20. CYCLOSPORINE

21. NIFEDIPINE

22. TREATMENT OF DRUG ASSOCIATED GINGIVAL
ENLARGEMENT

24. IDIOPATHIC GINGIVAL FIBROMATOSIS

25. ENLARGEMENT ASSOCIATED WITH SYSTEMIC
DISEASE

26. PREGNANCY

27. PUBERTY

28. VITAMIN C DEFICIENCY

29. PLASMA CELL GINGIVITIS

30. NON-SPECIFIC CONDITIONED ENLARGEMENT
(GRANULOMA PYOGENICUM)

31. LEUKEMIA

32. NEOPLASTIC ENLARGEMENTS
BENIGN MALIGNANT

33. BENIGN

34. FIBROMA

35. PAPILLOMA

36. PERIPHERAL GIANT CELL GRANULOMA

37. LEUKOPLAKIA

38. GINGIVAL CYST

39. MALIGNANT

40. SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA

41. THANK YOU!!