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*44% of cases.
*Dense collagenous tissue, with ulceration/superficial inflammation
*Dystrophic calcificaition within the fibrous connective tissue stroma (often highly cellular, with 'young stellate fibroblasts'
*No odontogenic epithelium seen.
*Occasional strands of surface epithelium growing down into the stroma.
*Most of these were previously diagnosed as fibromatous or ossifying epulides.
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With thanks to Andrew Jefferies (Cambridge) and Alun Williams (RVC) for providing access to their lecture materials
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