Peripheral ossifying fibroma, some rare findings

The peripheral ossifying fibroma (POF) is a benign reactive gingival overgrowth; it occurs mainly in the anterior portion of maxilla in young adults, predominantly among females. The present report describes a case of POF in a male patient, which relapsed ten years later and of the lesion showed sup...

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Autores principales: Chaturvedy, Vivek, Gupta, Amit Kumar, Gupta, Hoti Lal, Chaturvedy, Shefali
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3988653/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24744553
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-124X.128249
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description The peripheral ossifying fibroma (POF) is a benign reactive gingival overgrowth; it occurs mainly in the anterior portion of maxilla in young adults, predominantly among females. The present report describes a case of POF in a male patient, which relapsed ten years later and of the lesion showed superficial bone erosion on surgical excision.
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spelling pubmed-39886532014-04-17 Peripheral ossifying fibroma, some rare findings Chaturvedy, Vivek Gupta, Amit Kumar Gupta, Hoti Lal Chaturvedy, Shefali J Indian Soc Periodontol Case Report The peripheral ossifying fibroma (POF) is a benign reactive gingival overgrowth; it occurs mainly in the anterior portion of maxilla in young adults, predominantly among females. The present report describes a case of POF in a male patient, which relapsed ten years later and of the lesion showed superficial bone erosion on surgical excision. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC3988653/ /pubmed/24744553 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-124X.128249 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Indian Society of Periodontology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3988653/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24744553
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