Cherubism is a benign, hereditary giant cell lesion of the jaws, that appears in children as a bilateral painless swelling, between the ages of 2 and 5 years and progresses until puberty, when it spontaneously regresses. It normally requires no treatment. We had the chance to operate on a 5-year-old boy with cherubism 8 years ago, and used homogenous bone grafts to replace the diseased tissue to avoid pathological fracture of the mandible. Since then we have been following the patient, witnessing the gradual involvement of other sites in the jaws and the displacement of teeth and tooth germs.
The Albright Syndrome consists of the triad of polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, skin lesions and endocrinopathies. We are presenting the case of a young girl with the Syndrome, who was treated for a mandibular lesion with a bone graft taken from her mother.
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