[The clinical and therapeutic aspects of epulis gravidarum].

Preventive oral hygiene performed with particular care is the only possible means of preventing the occurrence and the recurrence of phlogistic phenomena of the stomatologic apparatus of pregnant women. However in the case of epulis surgical treatment of the lesion completes preventive care, followed by a plan of postpartum hygiene to eliminate local causes and to prevent recurrences together with therapy for the elimination of periodontal pockets and infrabony pockets, to a restitution ad integrum of the general conditions of the oral cavity.