Treatment of hypertrophic gingivitis with laser radiation

Abstract

The treatment of hypertrophic gingivitis in adolescence is difficult and often accompanied by recurrences. There are recommendations on the exposure mode of the helium-neon laser, which inhibits cell proliferation with a photosensitizer, for the treatment of chronic hypertrophic gingivitis. We studied the efficacy of laser therapy in juvenile gingivitis. We treated 10 patients aged 16 to 18 years with the edematous form of hypertrophic gingivitis. Four of them had grade I hypertrophy of gingival papillae and six had grade II hypertrophy.