Revisiting Vickers and Gorlin criteria in histopathological subtypes of ameloblastoma.

Background: Ameloblastoma is a benign tumour of odontogenic epithelial origin arising from enamel organ tissue that has not undergone differentiation to the point of hard tissue formation.

Aims: This study was conducted with an aim to provide a baseline data to analyse whether various histopathological variants of ameloblastoma satisfies all the characteristic histopathological features of Vickers and Gorlin criteria.

Settings And Design: A retrospective study of 25 cases of intraosseous ameloblastoma was carried out in the Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology in accordance with the Institutional Ethics Committee.