M any dental diseases can be easily treated or even prevented if the diagnosis is made early. A simple example is the dentigerous cyst, although many veterinarians are not familiar with this condition. This article presents an overview of dentigerous cysts in dogs and cats, in the hope that more of these cysts will be prevented or diagnosed early. Dentigerous cysts (follicular cysts) are, in my...

The lining of an odontogenic cyst may show potential for neoplastic transformation to non odontogenic malignancies like squamous cell carcinoma and mucoepidermoid carcinoma and also odontogenic tumors like ameloblastoma and adenoamatoid odontogenic tumor (AOT). Unicystic ameloblastoma is a single cystic cavity lesion which shows ameloblastomatous differentiation in the lining. The clinical and ...

A competitive enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) method was used to measure the concentration of lactoferrin in fluids from 36 odontogenic keratocysts, 15 dentigerous cysts, and 30 radicular/residual cysts. Keratocyst fluids contained significantly higher concentrations of lactoferrin than fluids from the other two types of cyst (p less than 0.001); but the range of values obtained withi...

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Inverted mesiodens is a disorder of Odontogenesis relatively characterized by an excess number of teeth in the premaxillary region, in between the central incisors and in an inverted direction. The etiology of inverted mesiodens is still unknown. The complications associated with inverted mesiodens include eruption disturbance of adjacent teeth, displacement & rotation of the central incisors, ...

Dentigerous cysts constitute 20% of all odontogenic and are often located in the mandible maxilla. They seen at young ages men. Patients usually asymptomatic, diagnosis is established by dental radiographs routine scans. Surgery recommended for dentigerous because ameloblastoma, intraosseous mucoepidermoid carcinoma, or squamous cell carcinoma may develop from them. Generally transoral route pr...

Introduction: Among all the developmental cysts associated with crowns of a permanent tooth, dentigerous cysts is most common. Though usually present in 2 nd & 3 rd decade of life, are rarely seen during childhood. The dentigerous cyst is always associated initially with the crown of an impacted, embedded or unerupted tooth. This type of cyst is potentially capable of becoming an aggressive les...

dentigerous cysts are the second most common odontogenic cysts after radicular cysts and are most commonly seen in association with third molars and maxillary canines. only 5% of dentigerous cysts involve supernumerary teeth, of which mesiodens is the most frequent type. this paper presents a case of dentigerous cyst associated with a mesiodens that caused a painless swelling in the upper lip o...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the eruption speed and rate of angulation change of a cyst-associated mandibular second premolar after marsupialization of a dentigerous cyst in preadolescents. Premolars on the cyst and noncyst sides and size of the cyst were retrospectively examined with a total of 42 pairs of normalized panoramic radiographs in 20 patients who underwent neither ex...