1996 Volume 45 Issue 1 Pages 80-85
In this report, special reference was placed on epulis osteoplastica and clinico-histopathological analysis was carried out on 40 cases of epulis examined in the First Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Nagasaki University School of Dentistry, from 1984 to 1993.
The results were as follows:
1. The y were classified as 14 cases of epulis granulomatosa (35.0 %), 13 cases of epulis fibrosa (32.5 %), 7 cases of epulis osteoplastica (17.5 %), and 6 cases of epulis hemangiomatosa, according to Ishikawa's classification.
2. The majority of the patients with epulis was in their fifties to sixties and was females. The majority of the patients with epulis osteoplastica was in their fifties to seventies.
3. The size of the lesion of epulis osteoplastica was larger than that of other types of epulis.
4. The site of 27 cases (67.5 %) of epulis was in the upper alveolar region, and the site of the majority of 7 cases with epulis osteoplastica was in the maxillary region.
