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Question 1

What causes bright red gingivitis?

Answer 1

Big red chewing gum….cinnamonaldehyde

Question 2

What’s bright red gingivitis called?

Answer 2

Plasma cell gingivitis

Question 3

What causes localized juvenile spongiotic gingival hyperplasia?

Answer 3

proliferation of sulcular epithelium

Question 4

What is desqamative gingivitis?

Answer 4

gingival epithelium that sloughs off easily (could be 5 different things)

Question 5

What are the 5 possibilities for desquamative gingivitis?

Answer 5

Lichen planus
Mucous membrane pemphigoid
Pemphigus vulgaris
Systemic lupus erythamatosis
Hypersensitivity

Question 6

What four drugs cause gingival hyperplasia?

Answer 6

Phenytoin (50%)
Cyclosporing(25%)
Nifedipine (25%)

Question 7

What’s the best way to prevent drug related gingival hyperplasia?

Answer 7

Oral health care

Question 8

What teeth are pericornitis associated with?

Answer 8

partially erupted 3rd molars

Question 9

What do “teeth floating in air” radiographically mean?

Answer 9

Papillon-lefevre syndrome

Question 10

What would hypertrichosis, epilepsy, mental retardation possibly mean?

Answer 10

Gingival fibromatosis