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The odontomes: Report of five cases
Vibha Singh1, Satish Dhasmana, Shabad Mohammad
1Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, CSM Medical University, Lucknow, India.
Abstract:
Odontoma seems to result from budding of extra-odontogenic epithelial cells from the dental lamina. This cluster of cells forms a large mass of tissues that may be deposited in an abnormal arrangement, but consists of normal enamel, dentin, cementum and pulp. World Health Organization (WHO) classification defines a lesion as a malformation in which all the dental tissues are represented in a more orderly pattern than in the complex odontoma so that the lesion consists of many tooth-like structures. This article presents a report of five cases of odontomes.
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