Open AccessProsthetic Rehabilitation in Marble Bone Disease
Author(s) -
Usha Rehani,
Vivek Kumar Adlakha,
Preetika Chandna,
Anshu Agarwal,
Vivek Rana,
Pooja Malik
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
jaypee's international journal of clinical pediatric dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0975-1904
pISSN - 0974-7052
DOI - 10.5005/jp-journals-10005-1079i
Subject(s) - medicine , rehabilitation , disease , dentistry , physical therapy , orthodontics , pathology
Osteopetrosis is a rare metabolic disease.(1) Dental abnormalities may be attributed to the pathological changes in osteopetrosis. Patients with osteopetrosis are especially susceptible to osteomyelitis of mandible.(1) A 13-year-old girl presented with complaint of jaw swelling on left side. The radiograph of left mandible (lateral oblique view) showed small sequestrum with irregularity and erosions of the man-dibular cortical margins. This case report aims at diagnosis and treatment of osteopetrosis with superadded mandibular osteomyelitis-a are entity.