Staining efficacy assessment of a differential routine and special stains for pathological stromal calcifications in maxillofacial lesions.

Head and neck connective tissue lesions may have diverse calcifications within the fibrous connective tissue stroma. The perplexity involved in the identification and determination of the nature or degree of calcification through routine hematoxylin and eosin (HE the use of special stains such as MB-AF and picrosirius red facilitates the identification of calcifications from the stromal tissues.