Oral focal mucinosis of the hard palate and gingiva

• Main Authors: Priscila Lie Tobouti (Author), Fernando Kendi Horikawa (Author), Bruno Fernandes Matuck (Author), Suzana Cantanhede Orsini Machado de Sousa (Author), Fábio Abreu Alves (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: University of São Paulo, 2018-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Oral focal mucinosis (OFM) is an uncommon, asymptomatic, submucosal, slow-growing nodule representing a counterpart of the cutaneous focal mucinosis (CFM). OFM has a female predilection with the highest prevalence in the fifth decade of life. About 68% of OFMs occur in the gingiva and 14% in the pal...