An epidemiological survey of acute ulcerative gingivitis in Nigerians

The prevalence of acute ulcerative gingivitis in Nigerian children aged 2–6 years was—Ibadan City 11.7%, Abebeyun 11.7%, Igun 1.7%, Akufo 26.9% and Uboma 12.6%. Two of the 63 individuals with acute ulcerative gingivitis had cancrum oris simultaneously. The age range of the children with acute ulcerative gingivitis was 2 years to 12 years. Seventeen of the 50 houses visited in Ibadan City with children aged 2–6 years had one or more children with acute ulcerative gingivitis. Of the 98 rural households with children aged 2–6 years, 20 had one or more children with acute ulcerative gingivitis. In Ibadan City 73 per cent of the children with acute ulcerative gingivitis lived in a house where another child had the infection.