Epulis: A Clinicopathological Study of 120 Patients with Emphasis on Recurrent Lesions

Abstract

A total of 138 surgical excision specimens from 120 patients presenting clinically with epulis was classified by histopathological criteria into giant cell-, granulomatous- and fibromatous-type lesions. Clinical data suggest that local irritants are an important pathogenetic factor. Histopathological analysis revealed that epulides represented self-limiting, reactive gingival overgrowths of granulation tissue displaying common morphologic features in all three histologic types. The transition of a given histologic type of epulis into another, as observed in recurrent lesions, is consistent with the concept of a common histogenetic entity.

Microsurgical repair of labial gingival tissues following excision of an epulis: a case report with 18‐month follow‐up

“…Huang et al 7 , in a clinicopathological study of 138 surgical excision specimens from 120 patients presenting clinically with epulis, produced a classification on the grounds of histopathological criteria into giant cell-, granulomatous-and fibromatous-type lesions. Clinical data also suggested that local irritants were an important pathogenetic factor.…”