Case Report: Bilateral mandibular buccal bifurcation cysts

Ashwag Aloyouny; Hamad Albagieh; Soad Mansour; Fahmy Mobarak

doi:10.12688/f1000research.28000.3

Case Report: Bilateral mandibular buccal bifurcation cysts

F1000Res. 2020 Dec 23:9:1502. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.28000.3. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Ashwag Aloyouny¹, Hamad Albagieh², Soad Mansour¹, Fahmy Mobarak³

Affiliations

¹ Basic Dental Science Department, College of Dentistry, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
² Oral Medicine and Diagnostic Science Department, College of Dentistry, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
³ Surgery Department, College of Dentistry, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.

Abstract

Buccal bifurcation cyst (BBC) is a rare inflammatory odontogenic cyst, which commonly affects children in the first decade of life. We report a case of a seven-year-old healthy boy with bilateral BBC, which involved unerupted incomplete permanent mandibular first molars. A review of the literature in English language revealed few similar cases. We reviewed 16 manuscripts of bilateral mandibular BBC, reporting a total of 20 cases since 1970. The clinical features of bilateral mandibular BBC summarized here could assist specialists with an accurate diagnosis and provide patients with optimal management.

Keywords: Bilateral mandibular cysts; Buccal Bifurcation Cysts; Children; Oral Cyst.

Publication types

Case Reports
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Child
Humans
Male
Mandibular Diseases* / diagnostic imaging
Molar / diagnostic imaging
Odontogenic Cysts* / diagnostic imaging

Grants and funding

The author(s) declared that no grants were involved in supporting this work.