Indian Journal of Mednodent and Allied Sciences
Open Access
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 2

Recurrent Peripheral Odontogenic Fibroma: A Case Report with the Review of Literature

1Post Graduate Student, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and Microbiology, I.T.S. Dental College, Hospital and Research Centre, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, mauli.kohli@gmail.com

2Professor and Head, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and Microbiology, I.T.S. Dental College, Hospital and Research Centre, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, drahuja14@yahoo.co.in

3Reader, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and Microbiology, I.T.S. Dental College, Hospital and Research Centre, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

4Post Graduate Student, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and Microbiology, I.T.S. Dental College, Hospital and Research Centre, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, dranimeshshivam@gmail.com

*Corresponding author email id: thanijadent@gmail.com

Online published on 16 October, 2015.

Abstract

Peripheral odontogenic fibroma (POF) is a rare benign mesenchymal odontogenic neoplasm with or without odontogenic epithelium, which is considered to be the mucosal analogue of central odontogenic fibroma. Though peripheral odontogenic tumours are rare, comprising of only 0.05% of all biopsy specimens, POF is the most common peripheral odontogenic tumour, more common than its central counterpart by a ratio of 1.4: 1. In this report, we describe a healthy 40-year-old female who was seen with a recurrent POF of the left mandible.

Keywords

Recurrent peripheral odontogenic fibroma, Extraosseous variant, Biopsy specimens, World health organization, Benign neoplasm, COF