Anterior lingual mandibular bone depression in an 11-year-old child.

Abstract

This report describes physical and imaging findings in a case of anterior lingual mandibular bone depression in a child. This entity is very rarely diagnosed and even more extremely rarely seen in children. We present some characteristic findings depicted on images provided by different sources and briefly address current hypotheses on its pathogenesis.

Bibliographical data

Original languageEnglish
Article number6
ISSN0258-851X
Publication statusPublished - 2012
pubmed 23160701