Clinical Nature and Treatment with Sclerotherapy of Pyogenic Granuloma: A Case Series

Abstract

Pyogenic granuloma is a misnomer, as in reality it arises in response to various irritating factors such as low-grade local irritation or hormonal factors, traumatic injury as well as presented as inflammatory hyperplasia that is not related to infection. Oral pyogenic granuloma is a lobulated or smooth exophytic lesion with pedunculated or sometimes sessile base, haemorrhagic in tendency. Although excisional surgery is the treatment of choice for it, some other treatment protocols such as laser therapy, sclerotherapy with 3% polidocanol, cryotherapy and steroid therapy have also been proposed. Here, Authors present a case series of gingival as well as extra gingival pyogenic granulomas which were diagnosed and treated by various therapies i.e., surgical excision, Carbon Dioxide (CO2) laser therapy and sclerotherapy. Regression period of lesion with different therapies was evaluated in detail. Maximum patients were female in the age group of 26-50 years in present case series. Almost all cases of pyogenic granuloma had typical clinical characteristic without bony alteration. Amongst all therapies sclerotherapy had the biggest advantage of less regression period for any case of pyogenic granuloma i.e., 7-8 days only.