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case_images: Photograph showing the upper lip at presentation.
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case_images: The clinical examination revealed edema, redness, and fissuring of the upper lip (Figure 1), with unilateral edema and fissures on the buccal mucosa, and gingival hyperplasia in the upper jaw (Figures 2, 3a and b).
case_images: Photograph showing maxillary gingival hyperplasia.
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case_images: The clinical examination revealed edema, redness, and fissuring of the upper lip (Figure 1), with unilateral edema and fissures on the buccal mucosa, and gingival hyperplasia in the upper jaw (Figures 2, 3a and b).
case_images: (a and b) Frontal and profile photographs showing the enlarged lips and lip fissures.
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case_images: The clinical examination revealed edema, redness, and fissuring of the upper lip (Figure 1), with unilateral edema and fissures on the buccal mucosa, and gingival hyperplasia in the upper jaw (Figures 2, 3a and b).
case_images: Oral panoramic radiograph.
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case_images: On oral panoramic X-rays (Figure 4), periapical alterations in teeth 21 and 22, deep caries in teeth 36, and radix relicta in teeth 46 were clearly discernible.
case_images: Photograph of the lips after 6 months of treatment.
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case_images: Six months later, clinical evaluation showed improvement of the lip edema, but with slight cheek swelling, mainly toward the left side, with an asymmetric facial appearance (Figure 5).
case_images: (a and b) Profile and frontal photographs showing the lips after 9 months of treatment.
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case_images: No mucosal alterations were present (Figure 6a and b).
case_images: Histopathologic view: (a) CK-MNF stain and (b) H&E stain.
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case_images: There was also a proliferation of lymphatic vascular vessels (Figure 7a and b).