Oral focal epithelial hyperplasia

The disease was first reported by Heck in 1961 and named by Archard in 1965. It is characterized by multiple high wart-like lesions of the oral mucosa, which occur mainly in Eskimos in India, North and South America, and Greenland. It is often localized in a small area, and individual reports have a family tendency.

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