title: En bloc resection of huge cemento-ossifying fibroma of mandible: avoiding lower lip split incision.
abstract: Cemento-ossifying Fibroma (COF) is an osteogenic benign neoplasm affecting the jaws and other craniofacial bones. It commonly presents as a progressively slow growing pathology, which can sometimes attain an enormous size, causing facial deformity. A case of a huge cemento-ossifying fibroma, appearing as a mandibular dumbell tumour in a male patient is documented, which caused massive bone destruction and deformity. It was surgically removed by performing en bloc resection of mandible avoiding the splitting of lower lip incision technique, thereby maintaining his normal facial appearance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Liaquat College of Medicine and Dentistry, Karachi.
authors.forename: Tahera
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ayub
authors.forename: Shahjahan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Katpar
authors.forename: Salman
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shafique
authors.forename: Talat
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mirza
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D018214:Fibroma, Ossifying / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008339:Mandibular Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*