Lingual Mandibular Salivary Gland Depression

What is it? A developmental concavity of the lingual cortex of the mandible, usually in the third molar area, caused by overextension of an accessory lateral lobe of the submandibular gland, and has the radiographic appearance of a well-circumscribed cystic lesion within the bone, usually below the inferior alveolar canal.

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