Fatemeh Owlia
1, • Mohammad-Hassan Akhavan Karbassi
1*, Narges Mirjalili
1, Shokouh Taghipour Zahir
2, Neda Gholami
3, Sharare Karimi
31 Assistant Professor, Department of Oral Medicine, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
3 Post-graduate Student, Department of Oral Medicine, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
Abstract
Osteomyelitis is an inflammatory infectious condition of bones, occurring either acutely or chronically. The clinical course
of the disease leads to destructive or sclerosing patterns of the involved bone. This report presents a case of chronic focal
sclerosing osteomyelitis in a 19-year-old male with a history of an uncontrolled convulsive condition. The lesion was first
diagnosed as an osteoblastoma. Chronic trauma or traumatic occlusion has the potential to induce osteomyelitis and should
be considered a possible diagnosis in differentiating periapical radiopacities, even in relation with vital teeth.