The insufficient or absent attached gingiva increases the risk of development of gingival recessions. The treatment of the mucogingival problems is one of the main objectives of the periodontal therapy. Mucogingival therapy is a broader term describing non-surgical and surgical treatment procedures for the correction of defects in morphology, position, and/or amount of soft tissue and underlyin...

Plasma cell gingivitis is a rare benign condition of the gingiva of unknown etiology characterized by sharply demarcated erythematous and edematous gingiva often extending to the mucogingival junction. This is sometimes considered as a hypersensitive reaction. It presents clinically as a diffuse, erythematous and papillary lesion of the gingiva, which frequently bleeds with minimal trauma. The ...

The purpose of this study was to devise and propose appropriate conditions for the photographing of thermal images in the oral cavity and to evaluate which thermography techniques can be applied to dentistry by evaluating the differences in temperature among oral tissues. Thermal images of oral cavities of 20 volunteers in normal oral condition were taken according to the guidelines of the Japa...

Skin and oral mucosa substitutes are a therapeutic option for closing hard-to-heal skin and oral wounds. Our aim was to develop bi-layered skin and gingiva substitutes, from 3 mm diameter biopsies, cultured under identical conditions, which are compliant with current European regulations for advanced therapy medicinal products. We present in vitro mode of action methods to (i) determine viabili...

Magnetic attachments have been applied for various prostheses. In this report, a fixed partial denture (FPD) to which a detachable gingiva was connected by magnetic attachment was fabricated to support esthetic recovery of the alveolar bone defect and the maxillary anterior missing teeth. Missing teeth, accompanied with an alveolar bone defect, are generally recovered with a removable denture o...

One of the most common mucoginigival problems are gingival recession with decreased width of attached gingiva and shallow vestibule. Many techniques have been employed till date to increase the width of attached gingiva and for root coverage. But in all these techniques multiple surgeries had to be performed to achieve predictable results. In such procedures, firstly the width of attached gingi...

Value, chroma, and hue of gingiva of 100 black and 100 white patients were measured clinically with Munsell color tabs under fluorescent light and under simulated daylight. The color of uniformly pigmented attached gingiva of both blacks and whites was described most often by a value between 5/ and 7/, a chroma of /4, and a range of hues from 2.5R to 7.5R when determined under fluorescent light...

HoDGE[1] reported the determination of lipids in human gingiva. FISHER et al.[2] investigated into the cholesterol contents in bovine and human gingiva. STERN et al.[3] observed the incorporation of sodium acetate-1-14C into cholesterol, palmitic acid and oleic acid in human gingiva. OTAKE et al.[4] also reported the incorporationof sodium acetate-1-14C into the lipid fractions in guinea pig gi...

 Gingiva is a common region of inflammatory and reactive lesions. Systemic conditions, including hormonal imbalance in pregnant women, may cause exaggerated response to irritations such as calculus or infection. Therefore, more accurate assessment is necessary to achieve the best decision making in the differential diagnosis and treatment of these patients. In this paper, we present a rea...