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A Rare Case of Gingival Cyst in a Child
Jennifer C Park1, Wa Sham Cheung2, Karen M Campbell3
1Clinical assistant professor, in the Department of Oral Health Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Journal of Dentistry for Children (Chicago, Ill.)
|April 8, 2017
Abstract:
Gingival cysts, which are more frequently reported as gingival cysts of adults (GCA), are soft tissue cystic lesions of odontogenic origin that are infrequently seen, especially in children. These lesions usually appear as localized firm elevations on the facial gingiva in the anterior segment of the mandible. The purpose of this paper is to present a rare case of a gingival cyst discovered on the palatal aspect of the posterior maxilla in a four-year-old child. The lesion was treated with excisional biopsy.