title: [The causes of gingival overgrowth].
abstract: Gingival overgrowth includes a series of diseases with many clinical appearances. The pathological mechanisms being obscure there were used many terms for defining it. Thus, "gingival hyperplasia" and "gingival hypertrophy" were the definitions used to define this pathology. Therefore, the term of "gingival overgrowth" replaced in last decades the above two terms. This article have the goal of trying a classification of the entities forming the large family of gingival overgrowth.
authors.affiliation: Disciplina de Fiziopatologie, Facultatea de Medicină Stomatologică, Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie Gr. T. Popa, Iaşi.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Costuleanu
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Plămădeală
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Costuleanu
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Foia
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Indrei
mesh_terms: D003778:Dentures / Q000009:adverse effects; D005885:Gingival Hyperplasia / Q000209:etiology / Q000235:genetics; D005886:Gingival Hypertrophy / Q000209:etiology / Q000235:genetics; D019214:Gingival Overgrowth / Q000209:etiology* / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D007049:Iatrogenic Disease; D009626:Terminology as Topic