Two thirds of cases are located in the anterior
maxilla, and one third are present in the anterior
mandible.[2]
Two thirds of the cases are associated with an impacted tooth (usually being the
canine).
Diagnosis
On
radiographs, the adenomatoid odontogenic tumor presents as a radiolucency (dark area) around an unerupted tooth extending past the
cementoenamel junction.
It should be differentially diagnosed from a dentigerous cyst and the main difference is that the radiolucency in case of AOT extends apically beyond the cementoenamel junction.
Radiographs will exhibit faint flecks of radiopacities surrounded by a radiolucent zone.