title: Preservation of Involved Teeth Associated with Large Dentigerous Cysts.
abstract: Dentigerous cysts (DCs) are benign odontogenic cysts that are associated with the crowns of permanent teeth. The purpose of this study is to describe the management of DCs in four children. Four boys aged between 7 and 9 years were referred to our clinics with the complaints of intraoral alveolar swelling or facial asymmetry on the affected area. The panoramic radiographies showed large, well-defined radiolucent lesions associated with the deciduous teeth and displaced tooth buds. The treatment consisted of the extraction of the involved deciduous tooth and marsupialization of the cyst to allow eruption of the permanent tooth. Permanent teeth displaced by the DCs in three cases erupted spontaneously within one-year period. The case with horizontally displaced permanent tooth was managed by replantation. This is the first time that underlying permanent tooth in a DC case was intentionally replanted.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pedodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Istanbul University, Capa, 34093 Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Yeliz
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Guven
authors.affiliation: Department of Pedodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Istanbul University, Capa, 34093 Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Yelda
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kasimoglu
authors.affiliation: Department of Tumour Pathology, Institute of Oncology, Istanbul University, 34093 Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Merva
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Soluk Tekkesin
authors.affiliation: Department of Pedodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Istanbul University, Capa, 34093 Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Dicle
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ulug
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, Istanbul University, 34093 Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Abdulkadir Burak
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Cankaya
authors.affiliation: Department of Pedodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Istanbul University, Capa, 34093 Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Elif Bahar
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Tuna
authors.affiliation: Department of Pedodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Istanbul University, Capa, 34093 Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Koray
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Gencay
authors.affiliation: Department of Pedodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Istanbul University, Capa, 34093 Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Oya
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Aktoren