• Published
    05-05-2023
  • Issue
    Vol: 27 Issue: 01, 2023
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CONSERVATIVE APPROACH FOR MANAGEMENT OF ODONTOGENIC KERATOCYST - A CASE SERIES AND REVIEW OF LITERATURE

  • Dr. Anchal Varshney, Dr. Shivani Aggarwal

Keywords: Odontogenic Keratocyst, Marsupialization, Conservative management, Recurrence.

ABSTRACT:-
Odontogenic Kearatocyst is characterized by a unicystic or polycystic intraosseous lesion of odontogenic origin. The choice of treatment approach is multifactorial and different conservative and surgical treatment options have been discussed in literature with variations in recurrence. The correct diagnosis and treatment plan deserves consideration in patients to avoid greater mutiliation in these individuals. Odontogenic keratocyst should be considered as a differential diagnosis in the cases of proliferative and osteolytic lesions in gnathic bones Herein we report a case series of seven patients diagnosed with odontogenic keratocyst and submitted to marsupialization followed by enucleaction showing no recurrence so far. Out of these one uncommon case of OKC in a six year old and another in maxillary sinus was also reported.