Marcelo Domingues Pinto*, Felipe Lage da Rocha, Viviane Bento Cupello, Gustavo Gaffrée Braz, Roberto Gomes Santos and Fábio Ramôa Pires
Gorlin cyst or calcifying odontogenic cyst was first reported by Gorlin. It is a very rare lesion, affecting only 0.3% of diagnosed lesions of the jaws and less than 1% of all odontogenic cysts. Its pathogenesis remains unknown until the present day, although the hypothesis that develops from remnants of the odontogenic epithelium of the jaws is accepted.
This article aims to make a brief review of the literature and report a clinical case of COC in the region of maxilla attended at the service of surgery and buccomaxillofacial traumatology of the Hospital Municipal Lourenço Jorge, Rio de Janeiro. The treatment of choice in this case was enucleation and peripheral osteotomy; Weber-Ferguson approach was performed for this, given the location and extension of the lesion.
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