ORAL & Implantology Anno I N. 3-4/2008 137 The gingival recession is clinically defined as the apical movement of the gingival margin to the cementoenamel junction (CEJ) (1). Histologically it is characterised by the loss of connective fibres of the periodontal tissue and alveolar bone (2). This clinical condition is frequently noticed in the population and particularly among patients with high...

Collections of exfoliated cells on Millipore filters, which retain the topographical relationships of the cells collected, previously have been used to examine keratinization and inflammation of adult gingivae. In the present study, samples of epithelial and inflammatory cells were obtained from the anterior maxillary gingivae of threeto five-year-old children using this technique. The oral hyg...

Introduction: Glass ionomer and polycarboxylate cement have different effects on the marginal seal, microleakage, pulp tissue stimulation, and gingival health. The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of these cement on the gingival health of primary molars restored with stainless steel crowns (SSC). Methods: A total number of 34 children were selecte...

Background. The link between the gingival overgrowth and cyclosporine pharmacokinetical variables, especially cyclosporine doses which appear to act as stimulator of the gingival proliferative changes, presents a field of interest of large number of researches. The existence of undefined association and/or interaction between the cyclosporine and periodontal variables, could be responsible for ...

INTRODUCTION Periodontitis is an inflammatory disease, for which, scaling and root planning(SRP) is the common approach for non-surgical control of inflammation. Using lasers is anotherapproach in the first phase of periodontal treatment for control of inflammation. Diode laserhas some beneficial effects such as acceleration of wound healing, promotion of angiogenesisand augmentation of growth ...

Drug-induced gingival hyperplasia is a serious concern both for the patient and the clinician. A 45 year-old Caucasian male patient with hypertension, who received amlodipine (10 mg/day, single dose orally) for two months, sought medical attention because of the new-onset gingival enlargement. On clinical examination a generalized and firm overgrowth of the gingival throughout the maxilla and t...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of MRI as a non-invasive method for the characterization of the inflammation and healing processes in periodontal tissues. METHODS For the in vitro study, 99 gingival samples were collected during periodontal surgical treatment and T1 relaxation time measurements were performed and correlated to the probing depth measurements recorded a...

Aim To assess the diagnostic performance of self-reported oral health questions and develop a model with additional risk factors to predict clinical gingival inflammation in systemically healthy adults United Kingdom. Methods Gingival was measured by trained staff defined as bleeding on probing (present if sites >=30%). Sensitivity specificity were calculated; developed its (calibration discrim...