Table 2.

Distribution of study sample among categories with the most common lesion of each category

Categories	Subcategories	N	%	Most common lesion	N	%
Allergies and immunologic disease		1	0.1	Sarcoidosis	1	0.1
Bone pathology	Benign	10	0.9	Desmoplastic fibroma	3	0.3
	Giant cell lesion	49	4.4	Central giant cell lesions	41	3.7
	Malignant	4	0.4	Osteosarcoma	3	0.3
	Fibro osseous	38	3.4	Ossifying fibroma	27	2.4
Dermatologic diseases		2	0.2	White sponge nevus	1	0.1
				Lichen planus	1	0.1
Developmental Non-odontogenic cyst		11	1	Incisive canal cyst	6	0.5
Epithelial pathology	Benign	6	0.5	Squamous cell papilloma	4	0.4
	Reactive	2	0.2	Verruca vulgaris	1	0.1
				Traumatic ulcer	1	0.1
Odontogenic cysts	Developmental	93	8.4	Dentigerous cyst	38	3.4
				Odontogenic KeratoCyst	35	3.2
	Inflammatory	213	19.2	Inflammatory radicular cyst	208	18.8
Benign odontogenic tumor	Epithelial	53	4.8	Ameloblastoma	31	2.8
	Mesenchymal	19	1.7	Odontogenic myxoma	8	0.7
				Odontogenic fibroma	7	0.6
	Mixed	25	2.3	Odontoma	16	1.4
Periodontal diseases		22	2	Gingival fibromatosis	14	1.3
Periapical diseases		47	4.2	Periapical granuloma	44	4
Salivary gland pathology	Benign	5	0.5	Pleomorphic adenoma	5	0.5
	Malignant	5	0.5	Mucoepidermoid carcinoma	4	0.4
	Reactive	61	5.5	Mucous extravasation cyst (mcocele)	56	5.1
Soft tissue tumors	Benign	35	3.2	Hemangioma	9	0.8
	Malignant	10	0.9	Lymphoma	5	0.5
	Reactive	397	35.8	Pyogenic granuloma	160	14.4
				Peripheral giant cell granuloma	99	8.9
				Irritational fibroma	90	8.1
				Peripheral ossifying fibroma	38	3.4
Total number of lesions		1108	100		956	86.3