On March 30, 2004, a 65 year-old man was admitted to the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgery of Chonbuk National University Dental Hospital complaining that a mandibular
gingival mass caused some inconvenience when using his mandibular removable dentures.
The patient had beenwearing maxillary and mandibular removable partial denture since
December 2003. He had suffered from gingival hypertrophy for almost a month and sometimes
experienced bleeding from the gingiva. The patient had been taking medication for
a prior cerebral infarction and hypertension over the last four years.
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Publication history
Published online: January 18, 2006
Accepted:
August 30,
2005
Received in revised form:
July 29,
2005
Received:
December 22,
2004
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