Tumour, fibro-osseous

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Mandible, the plaster cast of head and neck clearly illustrates the deformity caused by a significant fibro-osseous tumor on the jawbone. At sixteen years old, the tumor was initially identified as a firm, painless growth located to the left of the lower molar teeth. Despite extracting three adjacent teeth, the tumor continued to grow slowly over time. It wasn't until an operation that the tumor was removed, but even then, the wound failed to heal after eight months at the Infirmary. By age twenty-five, the tumor had reached its full size as seen in the plaster cast. The tumor affected the entire left side of the mandible and extended onto the right side as far as the anterior bicuspid tooth. Professor Syme surgically removed the tumor along with more than half of the lower jaw on July 7th, 1828, and remarkably, the patient made a full recovery and was reported to be alive and healthy eighteen years later according to "Contributions to the Pathology and Practice of Surgery" by J. Syme, published in Edinburgh in 1848.