Conservative surgical treatment for benign aggressive intrabony lesions

ABSTRACT

This study was performed to document that not all the aggressive lesions require extensive surgical intervention. Accurate assessment, as regard to clinical examination and histopathological investigation, should be done to determine the most suitable treatment. The study was conducted on 12 patients 7 patients were suffering from large odontogenic keratocyst, 5 patients were suffering from central giant cell lesions. All lesions were confined to the mandible and treated by surgical enucleation and aggressive curettage [peripheral ostectomy]. Long term follow-up was done [up to 18 months] which revealed that fair bone regeneration with no evidence of recurrence