Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development

  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 11

Oral Focal Mucinosis: A Rare Clinical Entity

  • Author:
  • Shubhangi Pareek1, Swagatika Panda2,, Sayantanee Chaudhury3, Abhay Chandra Das4, Alkananda Sahoo5, Neeta Mohanty6
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 757 to 759

1Post Graduate Trainee, Department of Periodontics and Implantology, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha O Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

2Professor, Department of Periodontics and Implantology, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha O Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

3Post Graduate Trainee, Department of Periodontics and Implantology, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha O Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

4Reader, Department of Periodontics and Implantology, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha O Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

5Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and Microbiology, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha O Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

6Professor and Head, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and Microbiology, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha O Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

Abstract

Oral focal mucinosis (OFM) is a very uncommon clinical entity whose exact cause remains unknown. It is a soft tissue lesion which presents clinically mainly on gingiva, usually not associated with pain. It may appear as a sessile or pedunculated mass having the same colour as that of the surrounding oral mucosa. The histopathological picture of oral focal mucinosis is that of myxoid degeneration of the surrounding connective tissue stroma in a focal pattern. It mainly occurs in adults during the 4th-5th decades but rare cases affecting the children and young adults have also been reported. The final diagnosis depends totally on the histopathological picture in such cases and complete surgical removal is regarded as the treatment protocol with no recurrence reported so far. We present here a case of oral focal mucinosis which is rare and requires proper clinical and histopathological screening so as to avoid wrong diagnosis and also to rule out all the other myxoid lesions which may be indicated in its differential diagnosis.

Keywords

Mucinosis, Myxoid degeneration, Gingiva, Soft tissue lesion