This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection
with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead tissue from the mouth and throat
due to the spread of infection from the gums.
Certain germs (including fusiform bacteria and spirochetes) have been thought
to be involved, but the full story behind this long-known disease is still not clear.
This condition is also called Vincent (or Vincent's) angina after the French
physician Henri Vincent (1862-1950). The word "angina" comes from the Latin "angere"
meaning "to choke or throttle."
As with most poorly understood diseases, Vincent infection goes by many other
names including acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis (ANUG), acute membranous
gingivitis, fusospirillary gingivitis, fusospirillosis, fusospirochetal gingivitis,
necrotizing gingivitis, phagedenic gingivitis, ulcerative gingivitis, Vincent angina,
Vincent gingivitis, and Vincent stomatitis.
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