Year : 2022

Volume : Volume 13

Issue : Issue 1

Address for correspondence :
V. Phani Himaja Devi
himaja.vaaka@gmail.com

Abstract

Adenomatoid odontogenic tumor (AOT) is a very well-known and well acknowledged non-malignant, slow growing tumor developed from complex system of dental lamina or its remnants. It is also called as “the master of disguise” because of it different clinical and histopathological appearances. This benign tumor is divided into three variants of which the more common type is follicular type which is often mistaken for dentigerous cyst. AOT mainly presents radiologically as a unilocular cystic lesion surrounding the unerupted tooth, which is frequently misdiagnosed as a dentigerous cyst clinically. Here, we present a successful management of a case of AOT associated with the impacted teeth, mimicking, and misdiagnosed as a dentigerous cyst in the initial examination in a 10-year-old male, by surgical excision.

Keywords: Adenomatoid odontogenic tumor, Dentigerous cyst, Impacted canine, Anterior maxilla, Surgical excision.