Pregnancy tumor is frequent disease entity in pregnant women and also pyogenic granuloma is very frequent disease entity in oral cavity, but at presnet day, the etiology and behavior of these disease is not clear. Therefore authors studied pregnancy t...
Pregnancy tumor is frequent disease entity in pregnant women and also pyogenic granuloma is very frequent disease entity in oral cavity, but at presnet day, the etiology and behavior of these disease is not clear. Therefore authors studied pregnancy tumor and pyogenic granuloma which have been experienced in Department of Periodontics of Dental Infirmary of Dankook University, and present preganacy tumor 8 cases and pyogenic granuloma 12 cases. Authors elicit the following results.
1. Pyogenic granuloma has a prediction for age, second decades to fifth decades of life and frequently occurs as twice as in female.
2. Pregnancy tumor more frequently occurs at the mixilla than mandibule and more frequently occurs at the anterior teeth area. On the contrary pyogenic granuloma has a prediction for mandible and molar area. Clinical sign and symptom shows swelling and hemorrhage on mild stimulation in both disease.
3. Pregnancy tumor and pyogenic granuloma may be occurred by specific reaction about nonspecific inflammation from local irritation.
4. The cause of non-complete regression of pregnancy tumor and pyogenic granuloma after parturition and subside of inflammation may be considered fibromatous change of these lesion.