PERIPHERAL OSSIFYING FIBROMA: A CASE REPORT

• Published in: Oral surgery, oral medicine, oral pathology and oral radiology Vol. 130; no. 3; p. e188
• Main Authors: SOUZA, DENISE BARBOZA DE, ACIOLI, FABIANA ALICE FERREIRA, SILVA, MANUELA CHAGAS NASCIMENTO, LIMA, KYVIA FERNANDA FERREIRA, MINAN, BEATRIZ DE MELO, SANTOS, VANESSA DE CARLA BATISTA DOS, FRANCO, AUREA VALÉRIA DE MELO
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Inc 01.09.2020
• ISSN: 2212-4403; 2212-4411
• DOI: 10.1016/j.oooo.2020.04.370

Peripheral ossifying fibroma (FOP) is characterized as a reactive inflammatory hyperplastic lesion of multifactorial etiology. It is predominant in adolescents and young adults, female sex, and by occurrence in maxilla. The reported case is of a 36-year-old male patient with complaint "see what is in my mouth." The extraoral examination showed a slight increase in the upper right labial region. On intraoral examination, a nodule was found in the region of the lateral incisor to right first premolar approximately 1.5 cm, single, with red coloration, smooth and hemorrhagic surface, clear boundaries, irregular format, firm/fibrous consistency, pediculated, and fixed. On the radiograph, calcification was observed in teeth regions 12, 13, and 14 with radiographic clinical hypothesis from FOP. The proposed treatment was excisional biopsy. Complete enucleation of lesion is fundamental to ensure the removal of all base of the lesion and reactional factors that cause it because the risk of relapse is high.