Fibrous dysplasia of the jaw bone: a review of 15 new cases and two cases of recurrence in Jamaica together with a case report

The authors reviewed 15 new cases of fibrous dysplasia of the jaw bone and two cases of recurrence seen in Jamaica between 1980 and 1995. Only cases which had a histological confirmation of fibrous dysplasia were included. The clinical behaviour and radiological findings of these cases were studied from the case files, either at the Cornwall Regional Hospital or the Kingston Public Hospital in Jamaica (AU)

Oral tori in Jamaicans of African origin: a clinical study

A detailed clinical study of both maxillary and mandibular tori was carried out by consecutive examination of 958 Jamaican black patients of African origin, above the age of 14 years, attending both the Dental Clinic of Chapelton Community Hospital and Foundation of International Development for Self Help (FISH) Medical and Dental Centre in Jamaica. Over 2,000 school children below the age of 14 had been previously examined by the author for these two lesions. From this examination, torus mandibularis or torus palatinus was never found below the age of 14 years. Out of the 958 patients above the age of 14 years consecutively examined, 63 presented with either torus mandibularis, palatinus or both, thus giving a prevalence of 6.6 percent for these benign bony lesions in Jamaican blacks of African origin above the age of 14 years. Although there seems to be no significant correlation in the co-occurence of both torus mandibularis and palatinus, a hereditary pattern was noted for both lesions in this study. In 71.4 percent of the patients presenting with these oral swellings, the lesion was never noticed. The locations of both the mandibular and maxillary swelling was typical to those previously described by other investigators. The result of the study may be representative of the Jamaican black population (AU)