Aggressive nasopalatine duct cyst with complete destruction of palatine bone

Abstract

Nasopalatine duct cyst is the nonodontogenic developmental cyst, frequently occurring in the midline of the anterior maxillary region. The clinical presentation of the cyst is often varied and presents a diagnostic difficulty and frequently misdiagnosed as developmental or inflammatory odontogenic cystic lesion. This paper represents a large infected nasopalatine duct cyst presenting with complete destruction of anterior palate and pyriform rim.

Keywords

• Cone beam computed tomography
• enucleation
• nasopalatine duct cyst