BACKGROUND Odontogenic keratocyst (OKC) is a developmental odontogenic cyst with an aggressive clinical behavior suggesting a change in its terminology from a cyst to a tumor and has now been renamed as keratocystic odontogenic tumor (KCOT). The purpose of this study was to assess and compare angiogenesis in ameloblastoma and OKC. MATERIALS AND METHODS Angiogenesis was assessed by studying th...

The keratocystic odontogenic tumor (KCOT), earlier considered as the odontogenic keratocyst (OKC), is now classified as a benign neoplasm owing to its aggressive nature which includes a high recurrence rate. This case report describes a symptomatic large intraosseous odontogenic cystic neoplasm in the left mandible presenting radiographically as a large multilocular radiolucency and associated ...

Renaming of the Odontogenic Keratocyst as the Keratocystic Odontogenic Tumor by the World Health Organization (WHO) is based on the aggressive nature of this lesion. Satellite cysts founded in the walls of the original cysts may give rise to a new lesion formation. The aim of this retrospecitve study was to identify the existence of specific features according incidence of satellite cysts and t...

Odontogenic keratocyst (OKC) is a cyst of tooth origin with an aggressive clinical behavior including a high recurrence rate. OKC demographics in the northwestern United States are presented and compared to those reported elsewhere. A total of 430 cases were obtained from 393 patients of the northwest region over a period of 15 years. Data evaluated included: site, gender, age, race, and associ...

An odontogenic keratocyst was detected and treated in the lower jaw. A 3D reconstruction from a CT scan was made before surgery and 15 months after. The healing process was monitored using stressstrain analyses of the mandible with a system of keratocysts, and by comparing them with the analogous data of stress-strain analyses of the patients mandible after the surgical extirpation of the cysts.

Odontogenic keratocysts (OKCs) are now considered benign cysts of odontogenic origin that characterized by an aggressive behavior with a relatively high recurrence rate, particularly when OKCs associated syndromes. Its histological appearance is characteristic the presence epithelial lining parakeratinized showing corrugated surface, together number architectural features epithelium as thicknes...