Several therapeutic procedures have been described in
the literature for both mucoceles and fibromas, such as
surgical excision with scalpel, ablation with carbon dioxide
(CO2) and erbium-doped yttrium aluminium garnet (Er:YAG)
lasers, marsupialization, and cryosurgery. Oral mucoceles
can alternatively be treated by the technique of filling
the interior of the lesion by dental alginate followed by
enucleation and micromarsupialization (7,9). If recurrence
occurs, it is necessary to remove the adjacent salivary
gland. Surgical enucleation is the most widely used form