The Prevalence of Inflammatory and Developmental Odontogenic Cysts in a Libyan Population

Maxillofacial Tumors and Tumor-like Lesions in a Nigerian Teaching Hospital: an eleven year retrospective analysis

“…26 The prevalence of odontogenic cysts has been shown to be in the range of 0.8-49.0%. 22,28,29 We observed a prevalence of 11.0% in a period of 11 years. Our relatively lower prevalence value obtained for odontogenic cyst in this study may be due to exclusion of odontogenic keratocyst which was grouped under odontogenic tumor in the present analysis.…”

“…The age and site distribution of these cystic lesions was consistent with earlier reports. 28,30 Fibro-osseous lesions, distributed as fibrous dysplasia (6.2%) and ossifying fibroma (6.8%) collectively accounted for 13.0%. Fibro-osseous lesions occurred over the second to the sixth decade with peak age of second and third decade for fibrous dysplasia and ossifying fibroma respectively.…”

Cysts of the Orofacial Region: A 35 Year Demographic Data at an Indian Dental Institute.

“…In the present study, over a period of 35years the prevalence of cysts of the orofacial region accounted to 19.08% and odontogenic cysts accounted to 16.35% of all the biopsies received in the department of Oral Pathology. These finding were consistent to that of Daley et al 12 who reported 18.20% of orofacial cysts and 17.20 % of odontogenic cysts.…”

Odontogenic cysts: A retrospective clinical analytic study of 632 cases diagnosed in Benghazi- Libya

“…In a study carried out at the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of this faculty. 7 It has been reported that the total number of OCs operated on at this department in 15 years period was 326 lesions represented 14.8% of 2190 biopsies and surgical specimens accessioned during a 15 year period. In that report, radicular cyst was the most frequently encountered cyst (68.1%), followed by the dentigerous cyst (15%) and OKC (14.1%).…”

“…Both developmental and inflammatory odontogenic cysts may develop from epithelium remnants of the tooth forming apparatus that were entrapped centrally within the bone or peripherally in the gingival tissues [1][2][3][4] . The prevalence of odontogenic cysts has been investigated in many countries in the past including Libya [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] . Among jaw cysts, many share similar clinical and radiographic signs, however, some of these are known to have an aggressive behaviour and propensity to recur so correct diagnosis of these lesions is very essential [3][4][5] .…”