TOPIC: ACUTE GINGIVAL CONDITIONS

📌 POINTS TO PONDER 

🔹Necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis is a tender and infectious gingival disease involving mainly the interdental and marginal gingiva. 

🔹In NUG, the zone between the marginal necrosis and the relatively unaffected gingiva usually exhibits a well- demarcated narrow erythematous zone, sometimes referred to as the linear erythema.

🔹Patient with pericoronitis is extremely uncomfortable due to foul taste in the mouth and an inability to close the jaws  completely. Moreover, the condition is very painful. 

🔹While removing pseudomembrane in NUG patient, use of single pellet with sweeping motion over large areas is contraindicated. Each cotton pellet is used in a small area and is then discarded.