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Volume 4 Issue 5 (September - October, 2016)

Review Articles

A CONTEMPORARY REVIEW ON INDICES FOR GINGIVAL ENLARGEMENT
Sakshi Dubey, Deepti Gattani, Snehal Deotale, Mohsin Quazi

There are numerous vacillating etiologies of gingival overgrowth or gingival enlargement which most commonly affects the connective tissue elements of the gingiva. Depending on the cause, the operator proposes the management of gingival overgrowth. As far as the literature is concerned for all types of gingival overgrowth the consequences of the treatment depends on the extent, severity and the etiopathogenesis behind it. Hence, we need to know various methodologies to measure all these parameters for a successful means of treatment. Most common method of assessment of the gingival overgrowth is with the help of a suitable index. Therefore focusing on all the indices for gingival enlargement we have tried to describe various indices present in the literature for the benefit of clinician.
Keywords: Gingival overgrowth, indices, gingival enlargement.

Corresponding author: Dr. Sakshi Dubey, III Yr P.G. Student, Department of Periodontics, Swargiya Dadasaheb Kalmegh Smruti Dental College and Hospital, Nagpur. Email: drsakshi.dubey@gmail.com

This article may be cited as: Dubey S, Gattani D, Deotale S, Quazi M. A contemporary review on indices for gingival enlargement. J Adv Med Dent Scie Res 2016;4(4):62-67.

 
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