Open AccessGingival pigmentation (cause, treatment and histological preview)
Author(s) -
Rehab Abdel Moneim,
Mona El Deeb,
Amany A. Rabea
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
future dental journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2314-7199
pISSN - 2314-7180
DOI - 10.1016/j.fdj.2017.04.002
Subject(s) - medicine , focus (optics) , dermatology , dentistry , gingival disease , mouth mucosa , pathology , physics , optics
Facial appearance depends on several oral and extraoral factors. The gingiva is an important intraoral tissue which when affected particularly by pigmentation is mainly responsible for the unpleasant appearance. Several causes of gingival pigmentation were previously mentioned in text together with the possible techniques of treatment. In this review, we will focus on this topic with a histological point of view
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