Painful oral inflammation provides difficult diagnostic and therapeutic challenges in cats, due to our poor understanding of many causes of the problem and poor patient and owner compliance during treatment. Clinical signs may vary from mild gingivitis to refractory gingivostomatitis (GS) affecting most of the soft tissues of the oral cavity. The prevalence of the problem in primary-care practice in the United Kingdom recently was reported as 0.7%. Less commonly, kittens may be ailected with marginalgingivitis mat occurs at the time or eruption ot then- deciduous teeth. Characteristic gingival hyperemia and swelling may be more common in Abyssinian, Persian, and Somali kittens, and may regress spontaneously or persist indefinitely.
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