Focal cemento-osseous dysplasia of maxillary posterior region

Abstract

Benign fibro-osseous lesion of the craniofacial complex is a broader term representing various diseases that are characterized by replacement of normal bone with hypercellular fibroblastic stroma with varying amount of pathologic ossifications and calcifications. Focal cemento-osseous dysplasia is of uncertain etiopathogenesis, with reactive and dysplastic processes as the suggested underlying mechanisms. The present case was unusual due to the involvement of maxillary posterior region in a young female which presented as bony enlargement.

Keywords

• Benign fibro-osseous lesions
• cemento-osseous dysplasia
• etiopathogenesis
• maxillary molar region
• World Health Organization