IO picture of a white mark on the mandibular labial mucosa. What is this caused by? - Answer:
Granulation tissue presence
Cleft palate - Answer:
Fibroma - Answer: Caused by trauma or habitual cheek biting
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,Dense connective tissue
May be firm or soft
Tx-surgery
Periapical Abscess (acute) - Answer: Radiolucent area at apex
Inflammation of pulp composed of pus that creates a fistula
Tx- drainage, RCT, extraction
Dental/Periapical Granuloma (Chronic apical periodontitis) - Answer: Localized mass of chronic
granulated tissue forms if a periapical abscess if left untreated ~ no symptoms
Dense connective tissue and epithelial rests of Malassez
Asymptomatic
Radiolucency at apex and slight widening of PDL
Radicular (periapical) Cyst - Answer: Most common cyst in the oral cavity
Develops from pre-existing periapical granuloma
More common in males
Fluid filled sac lined by stratified squamous epithelium
Associated with the root of a non-vital tooth
Need biopsy to differentiate btwn this and a periapical granuloma
Residual Cyst - Answer: Forms when a tooth is extracted and or part of the periapical cyst is left
behind
Radiolucency at the sight of extraction
Takes months/years
Tx- surgically removed
Class III - Prognathic - Answer:
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,Dens in Dente OR Dens invaginatus - Answer: "tooth within a tooth"
rare dental malformation found in teeth where there is an infolding of enamel into dentine.
Dens evaginatus - Answer: accessory enamel cusp found on the occlusal surface
most often in mand premolars
There is erosion on the man linguals. What should you advise a bulimic patient to do? - Answer:
rinse with sodium bicarbonate
Angles classification - Answer: Class I - mesognathic
Class II- retrognathic:
Division I - all anteriors are flared
Division 2- lateral incisors are flared
Class III- prognathic
Sublingual folds - Answer:
Materia Alba - Answer:
What is the cause of a child having an open bite? - Answer: thumb sucking
Amelogenesis Imperfecta - Answer:
Radiograph of a crown fracture - Answer: make sure to know it was not the patient that moved
Coronoid process - Answer:
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, Articular eminence - Answer:
Radiograph of Zygomatic Process - Answer:
palatal papillary hyperplasia - Answer: Can be caused by poor hygiene of denture or ortho
appliance that sits on roof of mouth
Aspirin burn - Answer: Can be wiped away
Ophthalmic herpes zoster - Answer: reactivation of dormant varicella zoster virus residing
within the ophthalmic nerve (the first division of the trigeminal nerve)
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