Journal of Dental Science and Medicine
Open Access

Abstract

Self-inflicted gingival injuries have been reported to occur in children and adolescent secondary to number of causes , including accidental trauma , fingernail biting , digit sucking of these causes the one documented as the most common cause is habitual fingernail biting or onychphagia .Gingival recession is a muccogingival defect caused by variety of etiological factors that result in periodontal destruction most prevalent among those being periodontal inflammatory changes , one of the least documented cause is self-inflicted gingival injury can be confirmed by a careful medical and dental history , clinical appearance of the lesion and response to established treatment protocol. This case report described a repetitive injurious behavior by nail scratching resulted in localized gingival recession. The lesion responds well to conservative periodontal treatment. The role of underlying psychiatric morbidity leading to repetitive selfinflicted injurious behavior is discussed.

Biography

Dr. Almontasir balllah imreewah graduated from The University of Tripoli in 2015 and since then providing the most advanced dental care in a comfortable and pleasant atmosphere are the priorities of Dr. Almontasir balllah imreewah. During this time I was interested in Periodontology as my father specialty. And soon I was finding myself more in periodontology and been involving in much local dental conference