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Published on: January 12, 2019
Gingival enlargement in partial hemifacial hyperplasia
Rasika Ravindra Jagtap1, Gaurav Shekhar Deshpande1
1Department of Dentistry, Operation Smile's Comprehensive Cleft Care Center, Guwahati, Assam, India.
Abstract:
Hemifacial hypertrophy is a rare developmental disorder, characterized by unilateral enlargement of facial tissues. The hemifacial hyperplasia is classified as true hemifacial hypertrophy and partial hemifacial hypertrophy. It is unilateral enlargement of viscerocranial condition in which not all structures are enlarged. We present a rare case of gingival enlargement in partial hemifacial hyperplasia highlighting the clinical and radiological findings with the corrective treatment offered for gingival enlargement.

