Items tagged “jaw lesion”
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Cementoblastoma
Cementoblastomas are one of many mandibular lesions. It is a rare tumour of the cementum, with only approximately 100 cases reported. The key to diagnosis, both radiologically and histologically, is an attachment to the tooth root.
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Cementoblastomas have been previously described i...
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Dentigerous cyst
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22 Nov 2012
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Cemento-ossifying fibroma
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12 Jan 2013
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Stafne cyst
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14 Feb 2013
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Lucent lesions of the jaw (diagram)
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17 Jan 2014
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Floating tooth: maxillary metastasis
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11 Mar 2016
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Aneurysmal bone cyst of the mandible
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11 Oct 2016
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Cemento-ossifying fibroma
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04 Jul 2016
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Dentinogenic ghost cell tumour
Dentinogenic ghost cell tumours (DGCT) are benign mixed epithelial and mesenchymal odontogenic tumours with locally aggressive behaviour.
Terminology
It is also known as the 'solid' or 'neoplastic form of calcifying odontogenic cyst’, since the 4th WHO classification of head and neck tumours i...
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Lateral periodontal and botryoid odontogenic cysts
Lateral periodontal odontogenic cysts are developmental cysts arising adjacent or lateral to the roots of vital teeth and botryoid odontogenic cysts are multilocular variants of lateral periodontal odontogenic cysts.
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Lateral periodontal and botryoid odontogenic cysts are rare, wit...
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Gingival cyst
Gingival cysts or dental lamina cysts are developmental oral mucosal cysts growing from the remnants of the dental lamina in the gingival or alveolar tissue. In newborns, they are transient appearances.
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Gingival cysts are very common and transient in newborns and are seen within t...
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Glandular odontogenic cyst
Glandular odontogenic cysts (GOC) are developmental odontogenic cysts with glandular differentiation of the epithelium.
Epidemiology
Glandular odontogenic cysts are rare 1,2 and account for about 0.5% of odontogenic cysts 3. They are slightly more frequent in men and show a peak in the fifth a...
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Primary intraosseous carcinoma
Primary intraosseous carcinomas NOS (PIOC) are malignant epithelial odontogenic neoplasms of the jawbones with no clear benign analogue.
Epidemiology
Primary intraosseous carcinomas are rare tumours 1-4. They occur in a wide age range with the mean in the sixth decade of life. Men are more fre...