TRAUMATIC BONE-CYST RESEMBLING APICAL PERIODONTITIS

AMONG THE PSEUDOCYSTS OF THE JAWS, the traumatic bone cyst is known as an asymptomatic lesion often noted unintentionally during routine rad iographic examinations. The lesion neither devitalizes the teeth withi n its borders, nor does it cause resorption of their roots. The well-d emarcated traumatic bone cyst often projects into the intra-radicular septa and hence has been described as having scalloped borders. The fo llowing presentation is of a traumatic bone cyst that resembled period ontal pathology in its appearance.