SRM Journal of Research in Dental Sciences (Jan 2012)

Traumatic Neuroma - An unforeseen lesion subsequent to simple extraction

  • A Anuradha,
  • VVS Ram Prasad,
  • Vijay Srinivas,
  • Bina Kashyap,
  • Suvarna

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 2
pp. 160 – 162

Abstract

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Traumatic neuromas are relatively rare entities that characteristically arise following surgery or trauma. They are usually accompanied by pain of typical neuralgic type. We present an interesting case of traumatic neuroma of mental nerve following tooth extraction, which clinically presented as ear pain.

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