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- trench mouth
- progressive painful infection with
- ulceration,
- swelling
- sloughing off of dead tissue from the mouth and throat
- due to the spread of infection from the gums
- after the French physician Henri Vincent (1862-1950).
Causative Organisms
- fusiform bacteria
- spirochetes
Treatment
- best treated with the antibiotic penicillin.
Other names
- acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis (ANUG)
- acute membranous gingivitis
- fusospirillary gingivitis
- fusospirillosis
- fusospirochetal gingivitis
- necrotizing gingivitis
- phagedenic gingivitis
- ulcerative gingivitis
- Vincent stomatitis
- Vincent gingivitis
- Vincent infection
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