Abstract

Osteoma is a benign neoplasm of bone tissue that is characterized by very slow, continuous growth. 1 Shafer WG Hine MK Levy BM A Textbook of Oral Pathology (ed 4). in: Saunders, Philadelphia, PA1983: 163 Google Scholar It is classified into 2 groups: central and peripheral osteoma. 1 Shafer WG Hine MK Levy BM A Textbook of Oral Pathology (ed 4). in: Saunders, Philadelphia, PA1983: 163 Google Scholar The solitary peripheral osteoma of the mandible is uncommon, with only 26 cases not related to Gardner syndrome having been reported in the English literature. 2 Kaplan I Calderon S Buchner A Peripheral osteoma of the mandible: A study of 10 new cases and analysis of the literature. J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 1994; 52: 467 Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (119) Google Scholar , 3 Bodner L Gatot A Sion-Vardy N et al. Peripheral osteoma of the mandibular ascending ramus. J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 1998; 56: 1446 Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (46) Google Scholar We report 2 additional cases of relatively large, solitary peripheral osteomas of the mandible.

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