REGAIN WITH RESOLUTION - AN ANTICONVULSANT AS A SOFT TISSUE REGENERATOR.

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Gingival tissue loss(recession) is one of the frequent mucogingival condition encountered by most of the population. It may be a major concern of the dentally aware patient with a high standard of oral hygiene. In recent epidemiologic investigations, it has been shown that gingival tissue loss may actually be a condition in industrialized populations. However, whereas prevalence seems to be large even in young people and may essentially be confined to buccal surfaces, extent and severity may be rather small even in older age groups. Treatment wise, apart from elimination of the etiology the goal has to be focussed on soft tissue regaining. Surgical modalities such as grafts based on different techniques are performed by periodontists universally. A Search for non-invasive and patient friendly methods for the correction of the tissue loss is inevitable. Anticonvulsants such as phenytoin have the potential of inducing growth in the gingival tissue. Our aim of this review is to understand and incorporate the mechanism of phenytoin induced tissue growth creativity