WHO classification of odontogenic and maxillofacial bone tumors

Last revised by Henry Knipe on 13 Mar 2023

The WHO classification of odontogenic and maxillofacial bone tumors, last published in 2017, is a subset of the WHO classification of head and neck tumors (4th edition), which lays out a histological classification system for neoplasms and other tumors related to the odontogenic apparatus.

Classification

Malignant odontogenic tumors
Benign odontogenic tumors
Odontogenic cysts
Malignant maxillofacial bone and cartilage tumors 
Benign maxillofacial bone and cartilage tumors
Fibro-osseous and osteochondromatous lesions
Giant cell lesions and simple bone cyst 
Hematolymphoid tumors

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