CLINICAL CONSIDERATIONS ON THE ATTACHED GINGIVA OF THE CHILDREN IN KOREA

한국인(韓國人) 소아(小兒)의 부착치은(附着齒齦)에 관(關)한 임상적(臨床的) 고찰(考察)

To corroborate that the width of attached gingiva should be changed according to ages, and what relationships between the changes and the results of Glickman's clinical tension test would be, The author measured the width of attached gingiva of 85 Korean children in male, 94 Korean children in female from 8 to 11 ages and performed clinical tension test. The results were as followings; 1) At midline region of each evaluated teeth, Width of attached gingiva was the narrowest at midline region of deciduous canine, and nearly same at midline region of central incisor and lateral incisor. 2) At interproximal region of each evaluated teeth, Width of attached gingiva between left and right central incisors was the narrowest, that of between deciduous canine and lateral incisor, and between lateral incisor and cental incisor were the widest at maxilla and All were nearly same at mandible. 3) In general, width of attached gingiva of interproximal region was wider than that of midline region. 4) In this study, width of attached gingiva tended to be increasing according to ages both at maxilla and at mandible. 5) Compared maxilla with mandible, Width of attached gingiva of maxilla was wider than that of mandible. 6) The results of tension test were it that Over-all incidence was the highest in 8 year old children who had the narrowest width of attached gingiva at frenum attached region and tended to be decreasing according to ages from 8 to 11 years.