[9] In addition to the above forms, the dilated odontoma is an infrequent developmental alteration that appears in any area of the dental arches and can affect deciduous, permanent and supernumerary teeth.

There are two types of lesions which are regarded as complex odontomas with a prominent soft tissue component resembling ameloblastic fibroma.

[11] Odontomas are from mixed epithelial and mesenchymal components which are required for tooth development, producing enamel, dentine, cementum and pulp tissue.

[6] Odontomas usually asymptomatic and present as chance radiographic finding, often during childhood and adolescence when teeth do not erupt within the expected timeframe.

[10] Most common treatment is surgical enucleation due to well-encapsulated nature of odontomas allowing separation from surrounding bone.

[13] In 2019, a 7-year-old boy from Tiruvallur district,[14] near Chennai, India with compound odontoma received surgery to remove 526 teeth from his lower right jaw.