Drug-induced gingival hyperplasia: a retrospective study using spontaneous reporting system databases
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Drug-induced gingival hyperplasia: a retrospective study using spontaneous reporting system databases
BACKGROUND Drug-induced gingival hyperplasia (DIGH) causes problems with chewing, aesthetics, and pronunciation, and leads to the deterioration of the patient's quality of life (QOL). Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate the incidence of DIGH using spontaneous reporting system (SRS) databases. METHODS We analyzed reports of DIGH from SRS databases and calculated the reporting odds rati...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2055-0294
DOI: 10.1186/s40780-017-0088-5