By Mary Kekatos Health Reporter For Dailymail.com
Published: 21:03 BST, 17 April 2019 | Updated: 21:03 BST, 17 April 2019
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Doctors were shocked when a woman showed up at a clinic with her teeth surrounded by swollen and overgrown gums that looked like strawberries.
In a case report from the New England Journal of Medicine, the 42-year-old woman from Iran visited a dermatologist complaining of worsening oral pain.
She said her gums had been growing for six weeks prior to her visit and she'd been suffering from recurrent nosebleeds and ulcers that were 'eating away' at her face.
That's when doctors noticed a granular appearance in her gums and diagnosed her with a condition that's nicknamed 'strawberry gingivitis'.
An unnamed 42-year-old woman from Iran visited a dermatologist complaining of overgrown gums. She was diagnosed with a rare condition called 'strawberry gingivitis'
When gum tissue overgrows around the teeth, it's normally known as gingival hyperplasia.
It's typically caused either by poor oral hygiene or as a side effect of certain medications, such
