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●● Healthy Gingival Tissue.
Answer: •Color: Coral pink/pigmented
•Margin: 1 to 2 mm coronal to CEJ
•Size: Tissue fits snugly.
•Texture: Normal, stippled
•Consistency: Firm, resilient tissue
•Shape: Tapers to meet tooth at a fine edge, papillae fill the embrasure
space
•No bleeding/exudate
●● Changes in Gingival Disease.
Answer: •Color - bright red, bluish purple, white, or pale pink
•Size - may be enlarged
•Margin - more than 2 mm coronal to CEJ (swelling) or apical to CEJ
(recession)
•Shape - rolled, thickened margin
•Texture: smooth, shiny, not stippled, fibrotic, nodular
•Consistency: soft, spongy, leathery
, •Papilla - may be rolled, blunted, bulbous, missing
•Bleeding/exudate may be present
●● Bulbous Papilla.
Answer: An enlarged papilla that appears to bulge out of the
interproximal space.
●● Cratered Papilla.
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●● Blunted Papilla.
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●● Spongy, Flaccid tissue.
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●● Smooth, Shiny Tissue.
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●● Nodular/Fibrotic Tissue.
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