Traumatic bone cyst of the jaws: An idiopathic entity

Th e synonym for traumatic bone cyst (TBC) is solitary bone cyst, idiopathic bone cyst and is characterized as the presence of infectious bony cavity fi lled with fl uid and litt le quantities of tissue with no lining of epithelium. Typically these lesions show no symptoms and are detected coincidently while performing routine radiographic investigation for another purpose for which the patient reported. Usually, these cavities are found to be empty but occasionally may contain serosanguinous fl uid, clots, erythrocytes, fi brin, and giant cells. Of the jaw bones, this cyst is preferentially found more in the mandible than in maxilla. In this report, we present a case of asymptomatic TBC in the anterior mandible.