Table 3. Location of biting fibroma.

^aBiting fibromas observed on the mandibular ridge (19, 6.7%) and maxillary ridge (10, 3.5%)

^bBiting fibromas observed on the gingiva (73, 25.3%)

^cBiting fibromas observed on the alveolar ridge (nine, 4.7%)

^dBiting fibromas observed on the gum (five, 4.9%)

^eBiting fibromas observed on the soft palate (10, 3.5%) and oral floor (five, 1.9%)

^fBiting fibromas observed on oral cavity sites that were not stated (16, 5.6%)

^gBiting fibromas observed on the retromolar region (six, 3.1%)

^hBiting fibromas observed on oral cavity sites that were not stated (34, 33.3%)

BF, biting fibroma; H, hard

Authors	Barker and Lucas	Bouquot and Gundlach	Toida et al.	Naderi et al.	de Santana Santos et al.	Rivera et al.	Total
Year	1967	1986	2001	2012	2014	2017
Total number of BF	171	283	129	288	193	102	1166
Buccal BF, number	62	78	42	113	119	40	454
Buccal BF, percentage	36.3	27.6	32.5	39.2	61.7	39.2	38.9
Tongue BF, number	25	57	66	35	25	7	215
Tongue BF, percentage	14.6	20.1	51.2	12.2	12.9	6.9	18.4
Lip BF, number	39	66	14	36	26	11	192
Lip BF, percentage	22.8	23.3	10.9	12.5	13.5	10.8	16.5
H palate BF, number	45	38	7	15	8	5	118
H palate BF, percentage	26.3	13.4	5.4	5.2	4.1	4.9	10.1
Gingiva BF, number	0	29a	0	73b	9c	5d	116
Gingiva BF, percentage	0	10.2a	0	25.3b	4.7c	4.9d	10.0
Other BF, number	0	15e	0	16f	6g	34h	71
Other BF, percentage	0	5.4e	0	5.6f	3.1g	33.3h	6.1
Reference	[12]	[19]	[8]	[16]	[4]	[20]