Odontogenic Neoplasms and 'Tumours' Flashcards
Aim: To provide an overview of odontogenic tumours Objectives: At the end of this lecture you should: - Know how odontogenic tumours are classified - Be aware of the range of odontogenic tumours - Know the basic pathology of the most common lesions - Be aware of how odontogenic tumours present - Be aware of malignant odontogenic tumours.
How can Odontogenic Neoplasms be classified? What types of Neoplasms go in each category? (1+3, 1+1)
Benign:
- Odontogenic epithelium alone
- Odontogenic epithelium and odontogenic mesenchyme +/- dental hard tissues
- Odontogenic mesenchyme alone Malignant:
- Carcinomas and Sarcomas
What are common clinical presentations of Odontogenic Tumours? (3)
- Present as radiolucent lesions
- Some may contain calcifications
- Most often at angle of mandible
List the odontogenic epithelium tissues (5)
- Oral epithelium
- Dental lamina
- Enamel organ
- Reduced enamel epithelium
- Rests of Malassez
List the odontogenic mesenchyme tissues (3)
- Dental papilla
- Dental follicle
- Periodontal ligament
Where do the remnants of Odontogenic Epithelium come from in Radicular Cysts? (1)
Hertwigs root sheath
Where do the remnants of Odontogenic Epithelium come from in Dentigerous Cysts? (1)
Reduced enamel epithelium
Where do the remnants of Odontogenic Epithelium come from in ameloblastomas, ameloblastic fibroma, CEOT, keratocysts and gingival cysts? (1)
Dental lamina
What is the dental lamina? (3)
- First evidence of tooth development in humans occurs at 6weeks of fetal life
- Proliferation of a horseshoe-shaped epithelial ridge from the basal layer of the primitive oral epithelium into the underlying mesoderm in the position of the future jaws; known as the dental lamina
- The dental lamina proliferates backwards in each arch, successively giving rise to the enamel organs of the future second deciduous molar and the three permanent molars
What is the epidemiology of odontogenic tumours? (4)
- Odontogenic neoplasms are rare
- Less than 1% of all oral tumours
- Ameloblastoma is most common neoplasm
- Odontomes are not neoplasms
What are the percentage prevalence’s of Ameloblastoma, Myxoma/myxofibroma, Calcifying odontogenic cyst (COC), Adenomatoid odontogenic tumour (AOT), Ameloblastic fibroma, Calcifing epithelial odontogenic tumour (CEOT), Squamous odontogenic tumour (SOT), Odontomes? What types of odontogenic tumours are they all? (15)
Ameloblastoma, 15% - Odontogenic epithelium alone (E)
Myxoma/myxofibroma, 10% Odontogenic mesenchyme alone (M)
Calcifying odontogenic cyst (COC), 4% Odontogenic epithelium and Odontogenic mesenchyme +/- dental hard tissue (E+M)
Adenomatoid odontogenic tumour (AOT), 3% Odontogenic epithelium alone (E)
Ameloblastic fibroma 2% Odontogenic epithelium and Odontogenic mesenchyme +/- dental hard tissue (E+M)
Calcifing epithelial odontogenic tumour (CEOT) 1.5% Odontogenic epithelium alone (E)
Squamous odontogenic tumour (SOT) 0.5% Odontogenic epithelium alone (E)
Odontomes 50%
List the Group 1: Odontogenic Epithelium alone – Odontogenic tumours (5)
- Ameloblastoma
- Adenomatoid odontogenic tumour (AOT)
- Calcifying epithelial odontogenic tumour (CEOT)
- Squamous odontogenic tumour (SOT)
- Clear cell odontogenic tumour
List the Group 2: Odontogenic epithelium and Odontogenic mesenchyme +/- dental hard tissue – odontogenic tumours (4)
- Calcifying odontogenic cyst (COC)
- Ameloblastic fibroma
- Ameloblastic fibro-odontome
- Odontomes – covered in an earlier lecture
List the Group 3: Odontogenic mesenchyme alone – odontogenic tumours (3)
- Myxoma/fibromyxoma
- Odontogenic Fibroma
- Cementoblastoma
List the prevalence and names of malignant odontogenic tumours (1,1+4,1)
- Very rare
- Odontogenic carcinomas
- Malignant ameloblastoma
- Primary intraosseous carcinoma
- Clear cell odontogenic carcinoma
- Malignant variants of other tumours/cysts
- Odontogenic sarcomas
What is the epidemiology of an Ameloblastoma? (2)
- Age: 30 - 50
- 80% in mandible, most at the angle
Describe an Ameloblastoma clinically (5)
- Benign but locally invasive
- Often asymptomatic
- Bucco-lingual expansion
- Root resorption
- Uni- or multi-locular radiolucency