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Revista Portuguesa de Estomatologia,
Medicina Dentária e Cirurgia Maxilofacial

rev port estomatol med dent cir maxilofac. 2020;61(2):72-78

Case report

Treatment of vascular malformation with
the surgical diode laser: Clinical case

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Ingrid Baaken-Buchrieser , João Braga , Cristina Fonte *, Lúcio Frigo ,
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Elisabete Barbosa , Filipe Coimbra b
a Dentist, Private Dental Practice, Lochau/Lake Constance, Austria
b Faculty of Dental Medicine, University of Porto, Oporto, Portugal
c Dental Division, University of Guarulhos, Guarulhos – SP, Brazil

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t

Article history: The objective of this study is to present a clinical case of a hemangioma of the lower lip
Received 26 September 2019 successfully treated by diode laser. A vascular malformation occupying the entire red zone
Accepted 3 July 2020 of the lower right lip, including the inner face, up to the midline, of a 12-year-old patient,
Available online 1 September 2020 was excised in two sessions with a diode laser (GaAl) of 980 nm with fiber tips of Ø 400 μm.
Total re-epithelization of the wound was achieved in approximately 21 to 30 days. No post-
Keywords: operative pain occurred, and the functional and aesthetic results were good. The use of
Diode laser diode laser in oral vascular anomalies can be considered a good treatment option. (Rev Port
Laser excision Estomatol Med Dent Cir Maxilofac. 2020;61(2):72-78)
Laser incision © 2020 Sociedade Portuguesa de Estomatologia e Medicina Dentária.
Laser surgery Published by SPEMD. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license
Oral hemangioma (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Wound healing

* Corresponding author.
E-mail address: acristinafonte@hotmail.com (Cristina Fonte).
http://doi.org/10.24873/j.rpemd.2020.09.701
1646-2890/© 2020 Sociedade Portuguesa de Estomatologia e Medicina Dentária. Published by SPEMD.
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).