Cemento-osseous dysplasia

[tirath]

Cemento-osseous dysplasia is a benign condition of the jaws that may arise from the fibroblasts of the periodontal ligaments. It is most common in African-American females. The three types are periapical cemental dysplasia (common in blacks), focal cemento-osseous dysplasia (caucasians), and florid cemento-osseous dysplasia (blacks).

        

[shreya]

What are its clinical features?

        

[gaurang_thanvi2003]

Dull pain or drainage are almost always associated with exposure of sclerotic calcified masses in the oral cavity.This may occur as the result of progressive alveolar atrophy under a denture or after extraction of teeth in the affected area.
Radiographically, the lesions appear as multiple sclerotic masses, located in two or more quadrants,usually in the tooth-bearing regions. They are often confined within the alveolar bone. Histologically,these lesions are composed of anastomosing bone trabeculae and layers of cementum-like calcifications embedded in a fibroblastic background.

        

[gaurang_thanvi2003]

Periapical view of Cemento-osseous dysplasia

        

[Anonymous]

These conditions should be differentiated from other common periapical lesions like cysts and granulomas occuring in the mandibular anterior region

        

[Author]

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