 They are commonly found along the lateral periodontium or within the bone between the roots of vital teeth, around mandibular canines and premolars.Standish and Shafer reported the first well-documented case of LPCs in 1958, followed by Holder and Kunkel in the same year although it was called a periodontal cyst.Since then, there has been more than 270 well-documented cases of LPCs in literature.