title: Odontoma-like tumours of squirrel elodont incisors--elodontomas.
abstract: Since 2003, nine squirrels were presented at a South African veterinary dental practice with lesions in the maxilla consistent with the clinical, radiological and histological features of odontomas as described in prairie dogs, rats and mice. These odontoma-like masses have not previously been described in squirrels. This report describes the clinico-pathological features and possible pathogenesis of the lesions and proposes the term "elodontoma" for these hamartomatous odontogenic lesions in the jaws of animals with continuously erupting (elodont) teeth.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral Pathology and Oral Biology, School of Dentistry, Faculty of Health Science, Pretoria, South Africa. sonja.boy@up.ac.za
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Boy
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Steenkamp
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D007180:Incisor / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008441:Maxillary Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery / Q000662:veterinary*; D009808:Odontogenic Tumors / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery / Q000662:veterinary*; D009810:Odontoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery / Q000662:veterinary*; D011859:Radiography; D012589:Sciuridae; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D016896:Treatment Outcome