A review of odontogenic keratocyst with a report of unusual occurrence in the maxilla.
Odontogenic keratocysts (OKC) are keratinizing epithelium-lined cycts of the jaws with well-defined histologic criteria and possessing one clinical feature warranting their recognition and separation as a distinctive entity, due to their exceedingly high recurrence rate. This report describes a case of OKC which occurred in the anterior maxilla in a 12 year old female child, with its treatment. These lesions are normally seen in the mandible, and are rare in the maxilla.
Nayak
U A
UA
Departments of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Oral Medicine and Radiology, College of Dental Surgery, Mangalore, India.
Rajeshkumar
B P
BP
Ahmed
Junaid
J
Baliga
M J
MJ
D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008439:Maxillary Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D009807:Odontogenic Cysts / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D011859:Radiography