2016 Volume 54 Issue 4 Pages 513-517
A 15-month-old girl was referred to our hospital from a general dentist for treatment of gingival overgrowth, which was on the buccal side between the mandibular right primary central and lateral incisors, and approximately the size of a grain of rice. Our clinical diagnosis was fibrous epulis and resection was performed using a standard procedure under local anesthesia. A 7 months after the first surgery, another fibrous mass was observed on the lingual side of the same mandibular right primary central incisor, which continued to increase in size in subsequent examinations. Twenty months following the first surgery, this mass was removed using the same procedure. Pathological diagnosis for both masses was epulis fibrosa and no recurrence was observed after the second surgery. We report here a rare case of epulides presenting on different planes and at different times on the same deciduous tooth.
