Bilateral tonsillolith: A case report

Tonsilloliths present as medical curiosities that are discovered incidentally on dental or soft tissue radiographs. They are usually asymptomatic and are found usually during routine imaging procedures. A rare case of bilateral tonsillolith in a male patient aged 70 years, which was incidentally discovered on routine panoramic radiograph and confirmed by Computed Tomography. In conclusion, even though in our case tonsillolith was asymptomatic, special emphasis is made on differential diagnosis as some of the soft tissue calcifications that occur in orofacial region may hint occult systemic conditions like atherosclerosis associated cardiovascular or cerebrovascular diseases.