Cemento-ossifying Fibroma Involving Mandible

Bilateral Cemento Ossifying Fibroma of Mandible

Cemento Ossifying Fibromas are rare fibro-osseous lesions that affect the jawbone. It is a well-demarcated and occasionally encapsulated neoplasm that contains fibrous tissue and varying amounts of calcified tissue resembling bone, cementum, or both. Slow growth and lack of symptoms are the cardinal features with expansion of both buccal and lingual plates associated with the larger lesions. Th...

Cemento-ossifying fibroma of the mandible

Cemento-ossifying fibromas are rare fibro-osseous benign neoplasms that affect the jaws. They are included in the group of mesodermal odontogenic tumors and commonly present as a progressively growing lesion that might attain enormous size with resultant deformity, if left untreated. A confusion prevails on the terminology, which can only be confirmed by histopathologic evaluation. A case of ce...

Cemento-Ossifying Fibroma of Mandible- A Case Report

Cemento-Ossifying fibromas are rare fibro-osseous lesions that affect the jaw bones and are included in the group of mesodermal odontogenic tumours. Clinically, it is a large asymptomatic tumor of aggressive appearance. Four separate categories have been identified: Periapical cemental dysplasia, benign cementoblastoma, cementifying fibroma and a rare gigantiform variety. It has been suggested ...

Cemento-ossifying Fibroma of Mandible: Report of Two Cases

Cemento-ossifying fibroma (COF) is a bone producing, slow growing, asymptomatic, well-demarcated, benign lesion of the jaw.1 Typically affects female between 20 to 40 years, predilection for the mandible premolar-molar region, causing a painless swelling but undergoes slow expansile growth.2 Most probably tumor originates from periodontal membrane, therefore, with double embryonic origin (ectod...

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