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Fall 2006: Volume 31, Number 1
 
Pediatric Oral Pathology

Radicular Cyst: a case report treated with conservative therapy
Aline Cristina Batista Rodriguez Johann / Carlos de Oliveira Gomes / Ricardo Alves Mesquita

This case reports on the treatment of a radicular cyst in a child. The patient presented a periapical radiolucent area associated to a root from the maxillary left primary second molar. After the extraction of the root, marsupilization of the lesion was done and a fixed resin tube was placed in the alveolar hole. After twenty-five months the lesion was healing.
This technique has proved to be effective and conservative for the treatment of radicular cysts in primary teeth.
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