Giant dentigerous cyst

Abstract

Dentigerous cyst - a cyst of dental origin, though common in lower jaw is relatively uncommon in upper jaw. Here a 14 years, F, presented with huge swelling of unilateral maxilla and clinicoradiologically diagnosed as dentigerous cyst is being reported along with brief review of literature.

What Do We Know About Dentigerous Cysts in Children, A Review of Literature

“…Only one case reported the use of nitrous oxide with general and local anaesthesia [96]. Some of the included clinical studies did not mention the type of anaesthetic technique used [10,14,16,17,21,35,36,39,42,44,46,49,50,51,54,55,57,59,66,68,70,74,78,79,81,82,85,89,90,93,98,102,103]. In one study the extracted tooth was re-planted after the marsupialization, however there was no enough long term follow-up [16].…”