Clinical Presentation of Dentigerous Cysts: Systematic Review

Conclusions: Medical Subject Heading searches should include a mix of specific and more general terms, and should be used in addition to hand-searches and reference list harvesting. Non-English language reports substantially contribute to the number of cases. There are significant differences in prevalence of various features between ethnic groups. Nevertheless, both lack of detailed reporting and the confusion about nomenclature and histology, until relatively recently, was unexpected for this hitherto supposedly well-understood lesion. The radiology component of the systematic review-included reports is almost non-existent in comparison to systematic reviews conducted for other lesions.