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Oral focal mucinosis: case report
F Germano1, R Abate, F Santini
1Contract Professor of Periodontology, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy "S. Giovanni Calibita" Fatebenefratelli Hospital, Isola Tiberina, Rome, Italy.
ORAL & Implantology
|January 4, 2013
Summary
Oral focal mucinosis (OFM) is a rare oral condition involving connective tissue degeneration. Diagnosis requires a biopsy, and this report details a case in an adult male patient.
Area of Science:
- Oral pathology
- Dermatology
- Histopathology
Background:
- Oral focal mucinosis (OFM) is an uncommon oral disease.
- It is characterized by focal myxoid degeneration of connective tissue.
- OFM is considered the oral manifestation of cutaneous focal mucinosis.

