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Peripheral ossifying fibroma: A 20-year retrospective study with focus on clinical and morphological features.
Med Oral Patol Oral Cir Bucal
September 2022
Oral Pathology Section, Department of Oral Diagnosis University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR) Av. Washington Soares, 1321, Edson Queiroz, CE 60811-905, Fortaleza, Brazil
Background: Peripheral Ossifying Fibroma (POF) is a reactive hyperplastic lesion that exclusively occurs in the gingiva and is characterized by the deposition of dystrophic calcification, cementum-like tissue, and immature and mature bone within the connective tissue. The objective of the present study was to perform a retrospective analysis of clinicopathologic features of POF.
Material And Methods: Clinical and histopathological data were obtained from biopsy records and histopathological reports from a Brazilian reference service in Oral Pathology (1999 - 2020).