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Diverse group of pathologic process can produce the enlargement of soft tissues in the oral cavity and often present a diagnostic challenge. These soft tissue enlargements may represent a variation of normal anatomic structure, inflammatory reaction, cyst, neoplasm and developmental anomalies. A group of reactive hyperplasias which develop in response to a chronic recurring tissue injury that stimulates an excessive tissue repair response. The pyogenic granuloma is a reactive enlargement that is an inflammatory response to local irritation such as calculus, a fractured tooth, rough dental restoration and foreign materials and rarely associated with bone loss. This article present a rare case of pyogenic granuloma associated with bone loss in a 28 year old female.

Bone loss, Pyogenic granuloma, Reactive hyperplasias