About the Book: Textbook on Odontogenic Tumors
When studying pathology of oral lesions odontogenic tumors is a topic of great
interest and importance to oral pathologists and maxillofacial surgeons alike,
who for several decades have studied and catalogued these lesions and developed
modalities for adequate treatment. However after the first edition of the WHO
classification in 1971, odontogenic tumors have attracted major and steadily
increasing interest. With the first edition, the terminology and the diagnostic
framework became available, and this modern and logically constructed
classification greatly intensified research into the subject, and markedly
stimulated the urge to publish new findings. This book is an attempt to put
almost everything