1Professor & HOD, Dept of oral & maxillofacial surgery, Melaka Manipal Medical College, Malaysia
2Associate Professor, Dept of oral & maxillofacial surgery, Sharad pawar dental college-Wardha
3Dean & HOD, Dept of oral & maxillofacial surgery, Peoples dental academy, Bhopal
4Professor & HOD, Department of pedodontics, Peoples dental academy, Bhopal
*Corresponding Author: DR. Y. Naresh Shetty, Professor & Head of the Department, Dept of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Faculty of Dentistry, Melaka Manipal Medical College Malaysia
Online published on 29 April, 2013.
Pyogenic granulomas are common benign mucocutaneous lesions. It is an exuberant tissue response to local irritation or trauma to the tissues. These lesions are solitary and vascular. Pyogenic granuloma is a reactive inflammatory process, filled with proliferating vascular channels, immature fibroblastic connective tissue and scattered inflammatory cells. The surface usually is ulcerated, and the lesion exhibits a lobular architecture. Pyogenic granuloma of the oral cavity is known to involve the gingiva in 75% of all cases. Lesions occurring in the oral cavity are commonly found in the anterior segment of the gingiva, lips, tongue and buccal mucosa. We present a case of pyogenic granuloma (4 x 3 cm) causing diastema of lower mandibular incisors in a 13 year old female patient.
Pyogenic granuloma, granuloma, diastema, peripheral giant cell granuloma
