A case report of the prosthetic treatment of the patient with diffused gingival hyperplasia.

Prosthetic treatment procedure of the patient with diffused gingival hyperplasia is reported in this paper.When we make the prosthetic appliances for these patients, we must take their oral hygienic managements for their future into consideration.Then it is desirable to keep in contact with oral surgeon, periodontist and dental technician.The patient in this report was female of 56 year old housewife.A chief compliant was the pain and the masticatory disturbance on the lower right side of mandible.She had no family history of this disease and dilantin sodium was not taken internally.This case was diagnosed as diffused gingival hyperplasia according to pathological examination.After talking this case over with our clinical team, the treatments were determinated as follows;1. Extracting 13 teeth.2. Curratage of infected gingiva and alveolar bone.3. Plaque control.4. Endodontic therapy of remained 5 teeth.5. Making upper and lower complete dentures with OPA attachments.6. Oral hygienic evaluation with Periotron.7. Masticatory rhythms analysis with EMG and MKG.