Unusual case of postpartum gingival enlargement: diagnosis and management
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Clinical management of an unusual case of gingival enlargement.
AIM The purpose of this article is to report a case of conditioned gingival enlargement managed by non-surgical periodontal therapy. BACKGROUND Hormones are specific regulatory molecules that modulate a host of body functions. Hormonal effects reflect physiologic and pathologic changes in almost all tissues of the body with the periodontium being no exception. Physiologic changes like puberty...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Medicine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2309-1622
DOI: 10.14419/ijm.v4i2.6814