Observations of hypercompact HII (HCHII) regions are not
easily explained by the standard model of HII regions whose
dynamics and evolution are dominated by thermal or turbulent
pressure, but these observations are simply understood within the
contexts of more recent models that include the gravitational
attraction of embedded stars. Each of these more recent models,
quenched HII regions, gravitationally trapped HCHII regions,
photo-evaporating disks, and champagne flows describes one of
the several types of structures that are typically seen in HCHII
regions. These different theoretical models and the different
bserved structures of HCHII regions may be unified by a single
model in which a simple accretion flow is subject to ionizing
radiation. The differences in structure result from the
differences in the magnitudes of the parameters that describe
the accretion flow and ionization: the central mass, gas density,
angular momentum, and flux of ionizing radiation. This analysis
suggests that the HCHII regions and some ultracompact HII (UCHII)
regions form a class of HII regions whose structure,
dynamics, and evolution are dominated by the gravitational force
of the embedded stars and significantly different from all larger
HII regions that are pressure dominated.