= clinically + radiographically indistinguishable from ameloblastoma
Prevalence: 36% of odontogenic tumors
Origin: mesenchymal odontogenic tissue
Age: 1030 years; M <F
Location: maxilla >mandible
Cx: can be locally aggressive causing considerable destruction of adjacent bone + soft-tissue infiltration
DDx: malignancy, traumatic bone cyst, central giant cell granuloma, calcifying epithelial odontogenic tumor