CASE REPORT
A 5-week Non-Surgical Approach towards Denture Induced Hyperplasia
Carolina Mayumi Iegami*, Regina Tamaki, Pedro Tortamano Neto
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2017Volume: 11
First Page: 151
Last Page: 154
Publisher ID: TODENTJ-11-151
DOI: 10.2174/1874210601711010151
Article History:
Received Date: 21/11/2016Revision Received Date: 11/01/2017
Acceptance Date: 13/02/2017
Electronic publication date: 31/03/2017
Collection year: 2017
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Background
Despite the standard approach towards denture-induced hyperplasia being surgery, as elderly population increases the systemic problems are carried along. Thus, surgery might be risky for patients with medical conditions.
Objective
In this report, a patient with severe inflammatory papillary hyperplasia, medical problems and dental fear was treated with a 5-week nonsurgical protocol.
Method
Once in a week, the upper denture was relined with a zinc enolic paste, for four weeks. In the fifth week, the denture was relined with fast set polymethyl methacrylate resin instead of zinc enolic paste so that the material would last longer than only a week until the new pair of dentures was manufactured.
Results and Conclusion
The generated pressure combined with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties of the paste led to the elimination of the inflammatory papillary hyperplasia completely, satisfying the patient and allowing the manufacturing of a new set of complete dentures.
