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Dentigerous Cyst in a young child: Clinical Insight and A Case report

Author(s) -

Rahul Hegde,

SumedhS Khare,

Vishakha Devrukhkar

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

journal of indian society of pedodontics and preventive dentistry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.378

H-Index - 33

eISSN - 1998-3905

pISSN - 0970-4388

DOI - 10.4103/0970-4388.117967

Subject(s) - dentigerous cyst , cyst , follicular cyst , enucleation , medicine , odontogenic cyst , asymptomatic , crown (dentistry) , dentistry , pathology , surgery

A dentigerous cyst or follicular cyst is an odontogenic cyst - thought to be of developmental origin - associated with the crown of an unerupted tooth. Such cyst remain initially completely asymptomatic unless when infected. The purpose of this case report was to describe the diagnosis and management of dentigerous cyst in a 9-year-old boy. The chosen treatment was cyst enucleation and tooth extraction.

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