Professional paper

The Notion and the Meaning of Odontoma

Goran Knežević ; Zavod za oralnu kirurgiju Stomatološkog fakulteta, Zagreb

Abstract

The author deals with the terminological confusion still present in the literature in connection with the word odontoma. It results from different interpretations of the word odontoma, which at the beginning related widely to all odontogenic tumors and even to some non-tumorous formations. It was also due to an uncritical use of different expressions, such as: odontogenic tumor — odontoma, soft odontoma — hard odontoma, or simply odontoma — complex odontoma. Discussing later how far some so-called odontoma are growth defects and how far they are tumors, the authors accepts the term only for two of them: complex odontoma and compound odontoma, and proposes for them corresponding names in the Croatian language, emphasizing their clinically-morphological,
roentgenological and histopathological properties.

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Hrčak ID:

105999

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/105999

Publication date:

15.6.1977.

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