Ide F, Horie N, Shimoyama T
Department of Oral Surgery, Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical School, Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan.
Oral Dis. 2003 Jul;9(4):224-5. doi: 10.1034/j.1601-0825.2003.02854.x.
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.