While dentists were examining his mouth they noticed a “circular-shaped lesion” on his soft palate — the roof of his mouth. The man, from Mexico, was unaware of the lesion and said it had ...

A: A malignant transformation of proliferative verrucous leukoplakia of the soft palate. B and C: The entire lesion was excised with the laser without direct suture of the margins. D: A view of the ...

Primary Source JAMA Source Reference: Ying S, et al " A man with asymptomatic ulcerated white plaques on the soft palate" JAMA 2023; DOI: 10.1001/jama.2023.0150.

Osteolipoma is a rarely reported variant of a lipoma -- the most common type of benign connective tissue tumor -- that shows bone formation. Finding this type of tumor in the hard palate is very rare, ...