Abstract
The patient was a 45-year-old woman with a large epulis osteoplastica at the dental bridge ((5)4(3)|). Epulis osteoplastica is a rare form of epulis. Usually, the treatment of a large epulis involves the extraction of teeth and surgical excision of the tumor. We avoided tooth extraction and the mass was excised down to the granulation tissue by curetting the alveolar bone. The excised specimen measured 32 × 31 × 24 mm (buccal epulis) and 28 × 20 × 12 mm (platal epulis). The epulis caused periodontitis, which was clinically treated after the operation. Herein, we report that the tooth can be preserved for 1 year 5 months after surgery without recurrence.
