Unerupted decayed tooth: a rare case

Pre-eruptive intracoronal radiolucencies are a rare occurrence, detected occasionally on routine radiographs. The etiology is still unclear, but evidence suggests that these lesions have resorptive nature, not associated with caries. A 35-year-old female patient presented a radiolucent lesion around the crown of an unerupted tooth (with resorbed crown and roots) between the roots of teeth #13 and #15 (radicular remnant with endodontic treatment). With the clinical hypotheses of dentigerous cyst and odontogenic keratocyst, an excisional biopsy was performed.
Source: Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics - Category: ENT & OMF Authors: Source Type: research