Clinical and surgical management of an aggressive cherubism
Journal Title: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CURRENT RESEARCH - Year 2018, Vol 10, Issue 1
Abstract
Cherubism is a rare autosomal-dominant inherited syndrome and is usually self-limiting. It starts in early childhood and involutes by puberty. It is a benign fibroosseous disease, characterized by excessive bone degradation of jaws followed by development of fibrous tissue masses. The purpose of this clinical report is to describe a rare and aggressive form of cherubism on a patient that has been treated by gingivectomy and gingivoplasty to correct the gingival defects and the bone defect was allowed to correct by itself to increase the patient’s quality of life.
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Siraj DA Khan, Nilotpol Kashyap, Brij Kumar -, Purshottam Jasuja -, Nupur Jain, Mukesh Kumar Kashyap -
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