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Research Article| Volume 14, ISSUE 7, P769-773, July 1961

Nasoalveolar cyst

  • Author Footnotes
    * Assistant Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.
    Robert A. Atterbury
    Footnotes
    * Assistant Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.
    Affiliations
    From the Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Research and Educational Hospitals, University of Illinois. Chicago, Ill. ,USA
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  • Author Footnotes
    ** Formerly Instructor in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Anatomy; at present Professor of Oral Surgery, Government Medical College, Patiala, Punjab, India.
    Sunder J. Vazirani
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    ** Formerly Instructor in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Anatomy; at present Professor of Oral Surgery, Government Medical College, Patiala, Punjab, India.
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    From the Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Research and Educational Hospitals, University of Illinois. Chicago, Ill. ,USA
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  • William J. McNabb
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    From the Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Research and Educational Hospitals, University of Illinois. Chicago, Ill. ,USA
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  • Author Footnotes
    * Assistant Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.
    ** Formerly Instructor in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Anatomy; at present Professor of Oral Surgery, Government Medical College, Patiala, Punjab, India.
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      Abstract

      Clinically, the patient may present an asymmetry of the face, and a swelling in the floor of the nasal vestibule may be observed. The eyst will be smooth. mobile, and nontender if it is not infected. It will be on bone and not in it, since this type of eyst does not erode the bone. Surgical excision of the cyst is the treatment of choice.
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