CASE REPORT 7

A PATIENT NAMED TARAMANI 47 YEARS OLD FEMALE REPORTED TO THE OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT OF ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY FACULTY OF DENTAL SCIENCES SGT UNIVERSITY WITH A CHIEF COMPLAINT OF MILD PAIN & SOUR TASTE COMING FROM THE LEFT LOWER SIDE OF THE MOUTH SINCE 3 MONTHS. INCISIONAL BIOPSY REVEALED OF ODONTOGENIC CYST WITH AMELOBLASTOMA PROLIFERATION. ON RADIOGRAPHIC EXAMINATION EXTENT OF THE LESION WAS EXTENDING WHOLE OF THE RIGHT BODY, ANGLE, RAMUS REPLACING THE CORONOID AND THE CONDYLAR PROCESS AND ANTERIORLY DISTALLY UPTO THE CANINE OF THE THIRD QUADRANT.

PATIENT UNDERWENT SEGMENTAL RESECTION OF THE MANDIBLE AND RECONSTRUCTION USING ILIAC CREST GRAFT ALONG WITH RECONSTRUCTION PLATE UNDER GENERAL ANESTHESIA. THE RESECTED SEGMENT WAS SENT FOR HISTOPATHOLOGICAL EXAMINATION. POST –OPERATIVE RESULTS ARE PROMISING. NOW SHE IS UNDER OBSERVATION OF FOLLOW UP PHASE.