1Post Graduate Trainee, Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha O Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
2Head, Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha O Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
*Corresponding Author: Dr. Faizan Qamar, Post Graduate trainee, Department of Paediatric and Preventive Dentistry, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha ‘O ’Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar 751003, Odisha, India, e-mail: doctorfaizan.qamar@gmail.com
Online published on 27 March, 2020.
Mucocele are a common benign lesion of oral mucosa involving salivary glands and their ducts. They develop following traumatic severance of a salivary duct, causing extravasation or retention of mucous material from salivary glands in subepithelial tissue. More predilectionsareseen towards children and young adults with trauma being the number one etiology. The motive of this report is to narrate a clinical case of a male patient aged 13 years visiting the Paediatric and Preventive Dentistry department, having a complain of swelling in the lower lip for1 month. On intra oral examination a well circumscribed swelling was present in the lower lip mucosa adjacent to the lower right canine tooth in the line of occlusion. Treatment plan was to excise it through laser under topical anesthetic spray. Surgery was quick, bloodless, and well received by patient. Post-surgery problems, discomfort, pain and scar were minimal on follow-up post 7 day.
Mucocele, Extravasation, Traumatic, Laser, Paediatric
