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How many times can one return in the same location?
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My 5 year old son had a mucocele removed only 4 months ago. I noticed another one yesterday beside the scar of the first one, so I took him to the oral surgeon today and sure enough, we have another surgery scheduled. The surgeon also thinks that there might be another one growing under the scar tissue of the old one. The biopsy came back normal for the first one, so I am not concerned about cancer or anything, I am just wondering how many times these things can grow back? The surgeon has never had one grow back in the same place, so has anyone else had this happen. I don't want to keep putting him through this if surgery can fix it.
Sorry to say, but I think the limit to the number of times they can come back is equal to the number of salivary glands you have. I would imagine it's pretty easy for a new mucocele to even be caused during surgery to remove one...since you're aggravating glands in that same area. I wouldn't think it would be very common to have them to recur, but maybe your son bites his lip in his sleep or something.
The medical literature online, (see http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic648.htm), seems to indicate that if the surgeon doesn't remove the adjoining salivary gland (or glands maybe?) that risk of reccurence increases.
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