BACKGROUND Juvenile hyaline fibromatosis (JHF) is a rare, inherited condition characterized by tumor-like growth of hyalinized fibrous tissue on the head and neck, joint contractures, and gingival hypertrophy. There may be marked clinical heterogeneity. METHODS We present a case of a 3-year-old Haitian boy with multiple firm nodules on the scalp and chin without joint contractures or gingival...

The aim of the present study was to assess the clinico-histopathological picture and to examine the recurrence of various localized hyperplastic gingival growths after their surgical treatment. Twenty patients of localized hyperplastic gingival outgrowth were evaluated in the present clinico-histopathological study. The data regarding age, sex, location, size, and duration of lesion were summar...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is usually considered a disease of older people. Recently, there is a change in the occurrence of such lesions in young patients and lacking the established risk factors. CASE REPORT: A 21-year-old male reported with an innocuous gingival growth over lower incisors since a month. Within 15 days he noticed another gingival growth in same region l...

Localized gingival growths are one of the maximum regularly encountered lesions within oral cavity, which taken into consideration to be reactive as opposed neoplastic. Those encompass pyogenic granuloma, inflammation fibroma, peripheral large cellular and ossifying fibroma (POF). Among those lesions, Peripheral Ossifying Fibroma (POF) is an occasionally happening non-neoplastic growth with reg...

Reactive lesions found on the gingiva are common and tend to be non-neoplastic growths. They are usually not painful and are often overlooked by the patient until they become symptomatic or are identified by their dental healthcare provider. Since they may be present for weeks to months, it is common to see ulceration of the surface tissue due to trauma. They have a recurrence rate of 5 – 20% a...

Odontogenic tumors mainly occur as intraosseous growths but sometimes may present in a peripheral location on the gingiva where they are referred to as peripheral odontogenic tumors (POTs) which are a rare entity, the most common of them being the peripheral odontogenic fibroma that is an otherwise uncommon, slowly growing, benign odontogenic neoplasm of the periodontal soft tissues. In fact, p...

Oral myofibroma is a rare tumour which usually occurs in children and has been reported in the mandible, tongue, buccal mucosa with only a few cases reported from the gingiva. It appears alarming clinically due to its fast growth which may mimic a malignancy. However, it is completely benign and is usually treated by complete surgical excision with excellent prognosis. Clinically, myofibroma pr...

pathological aspect of the subject; though this naturally occupies the greater part of the book, the clinical aspect is fully considered, and even the operative treatment exhaustively discussed. At the present time there is a good deal of confusion about the classification of renal tumours?so many varieties are now recognised?and the reader must not expect to gain a perfectly clear knowledge of...