Desmoplastic fibroma of the mandible: report of case.

Desmoplastic fibroma of the bone is a rare tumor; only 48 cases of the disease have ever been reported. The tumor has most often been observed in the metaphysis of long bones. Nine cases of the lesion have been reported in the mandible. The lesion occurred in the left mandibular body of one of our patients. We treated the entity by surgically removing the tumor and concurrently reconstructing the jaw with a bone graft taken from the iliac crest. There has been no recurrence a year and eight months postoperatively.