gingival tone

[Akam ahz]

Hello,
In my oral physiology book, I came across this passage:

"Too large convexity in facial and lingual contours provides too much protection to gingiva and gingiva will lose its tone."

The protection here refers to deflection of food away during mastication. But I find difficulty understand what is meant by gingiva tone.

Any ideas?

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[BlueDDS]

Hello,
In my oral physiology book, I came across this passage:

"Too large convexity in facial and lingual contours provides too much protection to gingiva and gingiva will lose its tone."

The protection here refers to deflection of food away during mastication. But I find difficulty understand what is meant by gingiva tone.

Any ideas?

Hi doctor! In this case “tone” refers to the consistency, gingival should be fibrotic. I hope this helps.