[Intraosseous developmental cysts of the jaw. 2]

The Authors conclude the chapter about the central intraosseous developmental odontogenic cysts. Some of them are very rare, others are very similar histogenetically with other more frequent cystic lesions of the jaws. Notwithstanding the radiographic and macroscopic aspect apparently similar, these lesions are very different between each other in their biological activity. The classification, suggested by Hoffman, Jacoway and Krolls lists these lesions from the least to the most aggressive. We have here considered the multiple nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome, also known as Gorlin-Goltz syndrome, associated to one or more keratinized maxillary cysts, the calcifying odontogenic cyst, the more frequent and well known dentigerous cyst, the lateral periodontal cyst with its uncertain etiology and the harmless eruption cyst.