L'épulis est une tumeur bénigne de la gencive qui n'a aucun potentiel dégénératif. Le nom vient du grec, épi = extérieur et oulon = gencive. La tumeur apparait généralement comme une excroissance suite à une irritation locale chronique, ou des perturbations hormonales ce qui explique sa relative prédilection chez la femme en période dactivité génitale et la femme enceinte. Cliniquement elle se ...

Background: Peripheral Cemento-Ossifying Fibroma (PCOF) usually presents as epulis, represents 3.1% of all oral tumors and 9.6% gingival lesions, is difficult to distinguish clinically radiographically, requires anatomic histopathological confirmation, peaking in the 2nd 3rd decades, high recurrence 8-20%. Objective: To report case management posterior maxilla with conventional surgery excision...

AIMS Based on our accumulated experience, the present study evaluates and discusses the indications, advantages and inconveniences of oral cavity epulis resection using the carbon dioxide laser (CO2) versus the Erbium:YAG laser (Er:YAG), diode laser and surgical scalpel. MATERIAL AND METHODS A retrospective study has been made of 120 patients involving the removal of 128 epulis lesions with t...

results and conclusion: lasers are useful for soft tissue surgery in modern dentistry, especially in relation to pediatric patients due to the rapid and regular wound healing without sutures. introduction: epulis granulomatosa is a lesion which grows from an extraction socket. it can be misdiagnosed with lesions of the same clinical appearance such as: foreign body or pyogenic granuloma, or as ...