FIBROTIC GINGIVAHYPERPLASIA WITH HYPERTRI CHOSIS

This case-report is about an eight-year old girl with gingivafibromato sis and hypertrichosis. At the age of three months the gingivafibromat osis became evident for the first time and its course of development h as been progressive ever since that time. Gingival pseudopockets resul ted causing frequently inflamations. The hypertrichosis was most appar ent until the age of one. No further anomalies were detected and the g irl's psychomotor development was also normal. Once the diagnosis was made an external gingivectomy was performed, orthodontic therapy is pl anned. The importance of a specific therapy is pointed out so as to re duce, inter alia, the syndrome's negative psychological effects on the patients to a minimum.