Saurabh Kamat¹, Kannan Sankar¹, Natt Janakiraman Eswari¹, Vikas Gahlawat¹, Bernard Nithin Joseph Jude², Anjna Negi^1
1Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Mahatma Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Dental Sciences, Puducherry, India.
²Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Indira Gandhi Institute of Dental Sciences, Puducherry, India.
DOI: 10.4103/0976-9668.160043

ABSTRACT

Pycnodysostosis is a rare sclerosing bone disorder characterized by short stature, brachycephaly, short/stubby fingers, open cranial sutures/fontanelle, and diffuse osteosclerosis, where multiple fractures of long bones and osteomyelitis of the jaw are common complications. We present a rare case of pycnodysostosis with chronic suppurative osteomyelitis of the mandible in a 36-year-old woman; which was nonsurgically managed by a conservative approach involving a novel protocol referred to as intra-lesional antibiotic therapy.

Keywords: Antibiotic, conservative management, mandible, osteomyelitis, pycnodysostosis.