Annals and Essences of Dentistry
  • Year: 2010
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue: 4

Keratocystic Odontogenic Tumor-A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing!

  • Author:
  • R Guru Prasad1, NS Yadav1, Shreenivas Kallianpur1, Annette M Bhambal1
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 244 to 246

1People's College of Dental Sciences and Research Centre, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

Abstract

Keratocystic odontogenic tumor or Odontogenic keratocyst is a benign but one of the most locally aggressive type of developmental odontogenic cyst. Due to its invasive abilities in the bone and its high recurrence rate, it shares features of a cyst or a neoplasm and continues to riddle clinicians and researchers. Clinical and radiological expertise lies in diagnosing such lesions which present themselves as a coincidental finding in a routine out patient department. We report an unusual occurrence of a Collateral Odontogenic Keratocyst between the roots of two mandibular molars.

Keywords

Odontogenic Keratocyst, Collateral cyst, Cysts of the jaw