KRUGER, Marta Silveira da Mota et al. Granuloma gravidarum - case report. Odontol. Clín.-Cient. (Online) []. 2013, 12, 4, pp. 293-295. ISSN 1677-3888.

Pyogenic granuloma is an entity often associated with expansion of soft tissues. In pregnant women is commonly called granuloma gravidarum or pregnancy tumor. This lesion, non-neoplastic nature, is considered a represent of an exuberant tissue response to local irritation or trauma. Female sex hormones are related to the pathogenesis of this lesion. This report presents the case of a 27-year-old patient in the eighth month of pregnancy, with granuloma gravidarumon the buccal mucosa, region of tooth 42, that was interfering with quality of life of the patient. Lesion excisional biopsy was performed.Depending on the volume, the pyogenic granuloma tends to regress completely after pregnancy, but in some cases it is necessary to consider the surgical removal of the lesion, because the granuloma could modify the diet, social life and marriage, important factors to adequate pregnancy development. Although the patient has not returned for immediate and mediate postoperative evaluation, it was reported, by telephone, no lesion recurrence after 18 months of the surgery.

: pregnancy; diagnosis; oral pathology; pyogenic granuloma..