Calcifying Odontogenic Cyst of Mandible: A Case Report

ABSTRACT

The term calcifying odontogenic cyst was first introduced by Gorlin in 1962. It represents 2% of all odontogenic pathological changes in the jaw. The calcifying odontogenic cyst usually arises intraosseously, but it may also occur extraosseously, with about equal frequency in the mandible and maxilla (11). The age of the patients may range from 5 to 92 years, with peak incidence in the second and sixth decade of life. Radiographically, the lesion appears as a unilocular or multilocular well-defined radiolucency that may contain small irregular calcified bodies of varying sizes, and it may be associated with an odontome or an unerupted tooth. We present a case report of 17year-old female with Calcifying odontogenic cyst involving right body and angle of mandible.