title: Focal cemento-osseous dysplasia masquerading as benign cementoblastoma: A diagnostic dilemma.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Focal cemento-osseous dysplasia (FCOD) is a fibro-osseous lesion that is a nonneoplastic reactive lesion.
  
  
  METHODS
  A case of 47-year-old female patient presenting with a diagnostic dilemma to the clinician is reported. Methods to achieve definitive diagnosis are discussed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  FCOD can present with features of periapical pathology or other osseous lesions. Hence, to arrive at a definitive diagnosis biopsy and histopathologic examination is imperative.
authors: Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara College of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Sattur, Dharwad, Karnataka, India.
authors: Gayathri S
authors: GS
authors: Rao
authors: Department of Radio-diagnosis and Imaging, Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara College of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Sattur, Dharwad, Karnataka, India.
authors: Muralidhar G
authors: MG
authors: Kamalapur
authors: Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara College of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Sattur, Dharwad, Karnataka, India.
authors: Swetha
authors: S
authors: Acharya
keywords: Cemento-osseous dysplasia; fibro-osseous lesion; focal cemento-osseous dysplasia; periapical cemento-osseous dysplasia