Management of Ameloblastoma: Desirable Treatment Approach

Abstract

Ameloblastoma is regarded as a slow growing benign odontogenic tumor of the jaw exhibiting a locally aggressive behavior, evident by the facial disfigurement it causes. The challenges in the management of Ameloblastoma are to provide complete excision without recurrence and reconstruction of the defect with good functional and aesthetic outcome.
After reviewing 10 cases (5 each, treated conservatively and surgically respectively), it has lead us to believe that radical surgical resection of Ameloblastoma followed by reconstruction of the defects is the most desirable treatment approach.