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Subpontic cartilagenous hyperplasia of the mandible
1Department of Oral Surgery, Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical School, Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan.
Oral Diseases
|September 17, 2003
Abstract:
We report here a case of subpontic cartilagenous hyperplasia of the lower first molar of a 65-year-old woman. A sessile mass of calcifying hyaline cartilage firmly attached to the alveolar ridge was found below the pontic of a fixed partial denture. This is a novel type of reactive cartilagenous metaplasia in the subpontic tissue.