Ameloblastoma is an epithelial neoplasma that consists of proliferating odontogenic epithelium lying in a fibrous stroma.
Usually the ameloblastomas are found in people between the ages of 20 and 50 years. About 80% occur in the mandible and fewer of them in the maxilla.
A 77-year-old woman was referred for evaluation and treatment of her right maxilla due to buccal with diffused swelling. An excisional biopsy was performed and it was diagnosed as ameloblastoma. She neither wanted to enter the hospital, nor have a radical operation. So we treated it to remove the mass, little by little over seven treatments under local anesthesia with a CO2 laser and electrocautery.
Now a small mass, the tumor partially remains in the maxillary sinus. About one year has passed, and there is neither tumor growth, nor invasion, nor local bone destruction.
