BACKGROUND AND AIM: Ameloblastic fibro-odontoma (AFO) is a rare, mixed odontogenic tumor that usually occurs in children and young adults with no gender predominance. Posterior mandibular region is usually involved and a painless swelling is the most common clinical feature.CASE REPORT: We here report a case of AFO in a 12-year-old girl with a complaint of a painful expansive lesion in the righ...

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Departamento de Odontologia, Patologia Oral, Natal, RN, Brazil Hospital Universitário Oswaldo Cruz, Departamento de Cirurgia de Cabeça e Pescoço, Recife, PE, Brazil Instituto São Leopoldo Mandic, Centro de Pesquisas, SLMandic, São Paulo, SP, Brazil Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG), Faculdade de Odontologia, Centro Acadêmico de Ciê...

BACKGROUND The aim of the present article is to report a case of ameloblastic carcinoma and use a marker alpha smooth muscle actin as a tool to differentiate cases of ameloblastic carcinoma from that of ameloblastoma. METHODS Case study reporting a case of ameloblastic carcinoma (AC) with expression of alpha smooth muscle actin (alpha-SMA) as a marker for emergence of stromal myofibroblasts. ...

Although rare, hard tissue deposits, namely dystrophic calcifications and cartilage, have been reported to occur in the connective tissue wall of the odontogenic keratocyst. However, dentinoid formation has not been previously documented. A case involving the left mandibular premolar-molar region in a 37-year-old Malay male is described here along with a brief review on the reported prevalence ...