You receive an emergency call from a hospital to examine a newly born girl child with an elongated stalk of tissue on the oral mucosa. Her reports reveal that the girl is born at 37 weeks and six days of gestation to a 19-year-old single mother. Physical examination As you look at the child, you observe that there is a 1.5 cm pedunculated soft tissue mass with adjacent secondary 8 mm mass on the oral mucosa alongside the mandibular alveolar ridge. Furthermore, you find something unusual and different about the pedunculated soft mass during the examination.
An instant operative decision A small discussion with the child’s mother and the doctor in charge confirms that the girl is having difficulty with breastfeeding. Understanding the gravity of the situation, you decide to carry out an operative excision even if it’s the third day of the newly born child. You perform the…
