The aim of this report is to diagnose the cause for episodic, shifting type of mild inflammation in the isolated areas of gingiva noted by the patient for 1 year. A 33-year-old female patient presented with a chief complaint of mild pain and occasional burning sensation confined to the gingiva to the Department of Periodontology and Oral Implantology. Clinical presentation of the gingiva was se...

The aim of this study was to assess and quantify the random effects resulting from clustering in the following individual-level periodontal outcomes: presence of clinical attachment loss of > or = 1 mm (CAL1), presence of clinical attachment loss of > or = 3 mm (CAL3), and presence of necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis (NUG); or in the following class-level periodontal outcomes: number of studen...

BACKGROUND/INTRODUCTION For various reasons, the care demand from elderly people is low and difficult to determine, whereas their oral hygiene status would need urgent care. OBJECTIVE To assess the oral hygiene status of institutionalized dependent elderly in Bangalore City, India. METHODS A cross-sectional study of 322 dependent elderly patients was conducted at seven elderly homes of Bang...

AGRANULOCYTOSIS is fortunately a rare condition but, nevertheless, the' following three cases, all of which were seen within a period of fifteen months, illustrate the necessity of keeping it in mind when endeavouring to arrive at a diagnosis. The importance of the oral manifestations of this symptomcomplex were emphasized by Mark (1934) who stated: "The frequency of the mouth lesions as the fi...

In children periodontal disease presents itself as symptoms of systemic disease, but very seldom does it develop, as in adults, into cases that accompany serious damage to the alveolar bone. Most common are the cases of localized filth and eruptive gingivitis. The majority of these cases of gingivitis are localized in the interdental papilla and marginal gingiva and very few of them affect the ...

* Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral Pathology, Index Institute of Dental sciences, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India ** Reader, Department of Prosthodontics, Modern Dental College and Research Centre, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India _________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT Denture stomatitis is the most prevalent and long standing problem in denture wearers...

Objective: To report a case of severe necrotizing ulcerative periodontitis (NUP) with a rarely associated sequestrum formation in a Nigerian HIV-positive patient. Clinical Presentation and Intervention: A 47-year-old HIV-positive male patient with no history of previous dental visits presented with a severe toothache in his lower jaw of 4 weeks’ duration, which had affected his ability to chew ...

Necrotizing fasciitis is one of the rare complications of misdiagnosed appendicitis with the mortality rate of over 25%.We report a 47-year old diabetic man admitted with necrotizing fasciitis of flank and abdominal wall secondary to acute appendicitis. The patient, with primary diagnosis of gas gangrene and necrotizing fasciitis, underwent surgical operation and after 3 months, elective append...

Objectives. The aim of this study was to characterize the lesions of necrotizing gingivitis (NG) and necrotizing periodontitis (NP) with regard to extent and severity, and to correlate these parameters with the host HIV serostatus, CD4+ T-cell count, neutrophil count, age, and gender. Methods. Eighty-four consecutive patients, 39 black females and 45 black males aged 20-46 years, diagnosed with...

Malignant syphilis is a rare and severe variant of secondary syphilis. It is clinically characterized by large papular, nodular and ulcerative lesions affecting the trunk and the extremities and covered with thick crust. We present a case of 52-year-old homosexual male who developed malignant syphilis and this was the first clinical manifestation of HIV infection. The patient was treated succes...