Floating teeth

Case contributed by Yahya Baba
Diagnosis certain

Presentation

Pain with a lump in the floor of the mouth.

Patient Data

Age: 55 years
Gender: Male
x-ray

Left-sided well-marginated osteolytic lesion within the horizontal branch of the mandible with floating teeth aspect (teeth number 34 and 35).

ct

This CT demonstrates a hypervascular mass eroding the left horizontal branch of the mandible with floating teeth.

Case Discussion

This case demonstrates floating teeth appearance in a patient followed for a squamous cell carcinoma of the floor of the mouth.

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