FIBROMA BY NON-NUTRITIVE SUCTION: A CASE REPORT

Fibroma is a reactive hyperplasia that can be caused by a chronic traumatic agent. A 6-year-old female patient sought dental care complaining of a lip injury. Physical examination showed a lesion, which was well-circumscribed, painless, sessile, with fibrous consistency, localized in the lower lip, of slow growth, with mucosa-like staining, and it was in between the central incisors when the patient closes the mouth. With a diagnosis of fibrous hyperplasia, an excisional biopsy was performed. Histopathologic examination of the specimen revealed nodular growth of fibrous connective tissue, unencapsulated and covered by stratified squamous epithelium and presence of chronic inflammatory infiltrate. The final diagnosis was confirmed: fibrous hyperplasia by non-nutritive suction. The patient remains in clinical follow-up.