Frequency
Sex
Race
Age
The incidence of mucous cyst is about equal in males and females.
Although patients of all ages can be affected, more than half of mucous cyst cases occur in those younger than 30 years. In a large oral pathology series in children and adolescents, mucocele was the most common entity diagnosed (33% of cases), and the lip mucosa was the site most often involved (48%).
The prevalence of oral mucous cyst is 2.5 lesions per 1000 population.
Mucous cysts are most frequent in whites.
