Bone cyst

Specific treatments are determined based on the size of the cyst, the strength of the bone, medical history, extent of the disease, activity level, symptoms an individual is experiencing, and tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapies.

Watchful waiting and activity modifications are the most common nonsurgical treatments that will help resolve and help prevent unicameral bone cysts from occurring and reoccurring.

These methods include open curettage and bone grafting with or without adjuvant therapy, cryotherapy, sclerotherapy, ethibloc injections, radionuclide ablation, and selective arterial embolization.

[5] En bloc resection and reconstruction with strut grafting are the most common treatments and procedures that prevent recurrences of this type of cyst.

[6] The traumatic bone cyst treatment consists of surgical exploration, curettage of the osseous socket and bony walls, subsequent filling with blood, and intralesional steroid injections.

It is a benign empty or fluid-containing cavity within the mandible body that does not have evidence of a true epithelial lining.