Open AccessRecurrent peripheral odontogenic fibroma associated with basal cell budding
Author(s) -
C Sreeja,
N Vezhavendan,
FS Shabana,
D Vijayalakshmi,
M Devi,
N Arunakiry
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of pharmacy and bioallied sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.268
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 0976-4879
pISSN - 0975-7406
DOI - 10.4103/0975-7406.137470
Subject(s) - odontogenic , pathology , dental lamina , calcification , budding , rest (music) , basal lamina , basal (medicine) , epithelium , fibroma , medicine , biology , anatomy , ultrastructure , microbiology and biotechnology , insulin
Peripheral odontogenic fibroma (POdF) is a rare benign odontogenic neoplasm. It represents the soft tissue counterpart of central odontogenic fibroma. The embryonic source of POdF has been suggested by many as arising from the rest of dental lamina that has persisted in the gingiva following its disintegration. It presents clinically as a firm, slow growing and sessile gingival mass, which is difficult to distinguish with more common inflammatory lesions. Very few cases of recurrence have been documented. It has been stated that histological budding of basal cell layer of the surface squamous epithelium is associated with higher recurrence and the presence of calcification in direct apposition to the epithelial rest is associated with lower recurrence. Hereby, we present a case which histologically exhibited budding of the basal cell layer, which could have been the reason for its recurrence.