title: Clinicopathologic features of 54 cases of paradental cyst.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of the study was to evaluate the clinicopathologic features of 54 paradental cysts.
  
  
  METHODS
  The cases were retrieved from the files of the Department of Oral Pathology of the University of São Paulo, in Brazil. Only case files that included complete data, radiographs, and clinical history were used for the study.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Most of the cysts were adjacent to a partially erupted mandibular third molar; only two cysts were adjacent to mandibular second molars, and one cyst was adjacent to a first molar. Women were affected more often than were men (33:21), and most of the patients were in their second or third decades. In most cases, the affected tooth had a history of one or more episodes of pericoronitis. Histologically, these cysts presented the typical features of an inflammatory cyst, having a lining epithelium, which apparently resulted from a union between reduced enamel epithelium and oral epithelium.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Development of the paradental cyst could be avoided if episodes of pericoronitis were properly treated, because the cyst is usually related to pericoronitis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral Pathology, University of São Paulo, School of Dentistry, São Paulo, Brazil. scmsousa@fo.usp.br
authors.forename: S O
authors.initials: SO
authors.lastname: de Sousa
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Corrêa
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Deboni
authors.forename: V C
authors.initials: VC
authors.lastname: de Araújo
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008964:Molar, Third / Q000473:pathology; D010497:Pericoronitis / Q000150:complications; D010509:Periodontal Cyst / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology*; D011859:Radiography