“…NUDE mice do not usually reject transplants and have therefore been widely used as a model for the investigation of neoplasms, including head and neck carcinomas (Pearson et al, ; Priolo et al, ; Sousa, Garcia, Nogueira, Furtado, & Anjos, ; Yokota et al, ; Zhou et al, ). Additionally, the PDX has an important applicability in translational studies, since it allows a better elucidation of carcinogenesis pathways and a better therapeutic evaluation (Hidalgo et al, ; Kujiraoka et al, ; Li et al, ; Oakes et al, ; Pearson et al, ; Peng et al, ; Siolas & Hannon, ; Zhou et al, ). However, xenotransplantation has not been used in benign odontogenic tumours yet.…”