Peripheral Giant Cell Granuloma Associated with a Dental Implant: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Table 1

Age, sex, site, initial presentation, time between implant placement and appearance of lesion, treatment, and outcome of cases of PGCG associated with dental implants found in the literature.

Author	Age	Sex	Site	Initial presentation	Type of implant	Time between implant and appearance of the lesion	Recurrence	Treatment
Hirshberg et al. [7]	31	M	Posterior mandible	Peri-implantitis	ND	Unknown	Yes	^*Curettage/excision (laser)
Hirshberg et al. [7]	44	F	Posterior mandible	Peri-implantitis	ND	6 years	Yes	^*Curettage/excision and surgical removal of the implant
Hirshberg et al. [7]	69	M	Anterior maxilla	Peri-implantitis	ND	14 months	Yes	^*Curettage/excision (laser) and surgical removal of the implant
Bischof et al. [8]	56	F	Posterior mandible	Tender rapidly growing mass	Branemark self-tapping Mk II	2 years	No	^*Excision and curettage
Cloutier et al. [9]	21	M	Posterior mandible	Exophytic mass	Rough-surfaced titanium spray implant	6 years	No	^*Excision and surgical removal of the implant
Olmedo et al. [5]	64	F	Anterior maxilla	Tumor-like lesion	Branemark-like, 4.1 mm diameter and 11.5 mm length	12 years	No	^*Excision and curettage
Özden et al. [10]	60	F	Posterior mandible	Exophytic mass	Straumann	6 years	No	^*Excision and curettage
Hernandez et al. [11]	45	F	Posterior mandible	Bleeding mass	3 self-tapping Branemark implants; (3.75 × 7 mm long)	3 years	Yes	^*Excision and curettage/surgical removal of the implant
Hernandez et al. [11]	36	F	Posterior maxilla	Profuse bleeding on toothbrushing	Branemark self-tapping implant; (4 × 13 mm)	2 years	Yes	^*Excision and curettage/surgical removal of the implant
Hernandez et al. [11]	62	F	Anterior mandible	Exophytic mass	2 self-tapped implants (Branemark system)	3 months	No	^*Excision and curettage
Peñarrocha-Diago et al. [12]	54	F	Posterior mandible	Exophytic Mass	7 Defcon Avantblast TSA surface implants	2 years	No	^*Excision and curettage
Galindo-Moreno et al. [13]	74	M	NA	Exophytic mass	NA	6 years	No	^*Excision and curettage
Present study, 2014	46	M	Posterior mandible	Painless exophytic mass	Neodent Titamax Ex; (4 × 11 mm)	10 months	Yes	^*Excision/excision and curettage

Initial treatment. ND = not disclosed. NA = not available.