Abstract:Background: Surgical ciliated cysts (SCC) of the maxilla appear as a delayed complication after surgery in the maxillary sinus, midface osteotomies, traumatic tooth extraction, and maxillary fractures. They are defined as a lytic lesion with entrapment of the pseudostratified columnar epithelium.Report of three cases: We present three patients in which after orthognathic surgery a slowly enlarging asymptomatic swelling mass was developed. On CT, all the cases presented lytic expansive lesions in the alveolar r… Show more
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