In recent years, there has been a substantial increase in number of reports involving uncommon sites involving in tuberculosis. Rise in number of HIV positive patients has made the scenario worse. Calvarial tuberculosis has beenreported very rarely in world literature till now. We are reporting a case of primary tuberculous osteomyelitis of frontal bone in a 15-year-old female. With prompt as well as careful diagnostic workup and treatment, we were able to halt the disease progression and excellent response to treatment was observed in follow up.
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