• Journal of Oral Medicine and Pain
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.149-154
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• 2010

In benign exophytic lesion in TMJ such as osteoma, chondroma, osteochondroma, synovial chondromatosis etc, symptom such as pain, mouth opening limitation, Most case of condylar exophytic lesion manifest with facial asymmetry, malocclusion, mandibular midline deviation. An osteochondroma and synovial chondromatosis are most commom benign condylar tumor. However this tumor is most frequently found on long bone and flat bone and is unusual on the skull. We report cases of osteochondroma, synovial chondromatosis of TMJ and review literatures.