TOPIC: GINGIVAL ENLARGEMENT

📌 POINTS TO PONDER

🔹Hypertrophy is an increase in the size of cells causing the increase in the size of the tissues.

🔹Hyperplasia is an increase in number of cells in a tissue thus, contributing to an overall increase in the size. 

🔹Gingival hyperplasia is caused mainly by an increase in the number of local cellular elements and intercellular fibers.

🔹The clinical features of phenytoin-induced hyperplasia are  different from that of idiopathic fibrous hyperplasia.

🔹The administration of phenytoin often leads to overgrowth of the papillae, leaving the attached gingiva whereas in idiopathic fibrous hyperplasia there is involvement of all marginal, interdental and attached gingiva.