ORAL PATHOLOGY FINAL STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% PASS

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ORAL PATHOLOGY FINAL STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% PASS What are the 5 cardinal signs of inflammation? ✔✔Heat, redness, swelling, pain, loss of function Where is the most common location in the oral cavity for a pyogenic granuloma is on the? ✔✔Gingiva, but can be found on lips, tongue and buccal mucosa What are the causes that are associated with denture stomatitis? ✔✔Loosely fitting dentures, worn continuously (24hr), poor dental hygiene What is the term used to describe an increase in the size of an organ, and the decrease in size of an organ? ✔✔Increase - hypertrophy, Decrease - atrophy, Hyperplasia - increase in # of cells What are the different types of cysts discussed in chapter 2? ✔✔Radicular - around root, Resdidual - tooth is removed & all or part of a radicular cyst is left behind What is the difference between erosion, abrasion, abfraction and attrition? ✔✔Erosion - acid (loss of tooth structure), Abrasion - toothbrushing (recession), Attrition - tooth wear (grinding), Abfraction - wedge shaped defect (cervical area: premolars) What are the differences and signs of chronic vs acute infection? ✔✔Acute - injury is minimal and brief, Chronic - injury is long lasting What is actinic chelitis and where is it located? ✔✔Sun exposure in fair-skinned individuals can result in degeneration of the tissue of the vermilion of the lips (lower lip more severely involved) What is a pulp polyp and what does it look like clinically? ✔✔Excessive proliferation of chronically inflamed dental pulp tissue. It appears as a pink or red nodule of tissue that often fills the entire cavity in the tooth, with tissue protruding from the pulp chamber. What is a sialolith? What ways it can be located? ✔✔A salivary gland stone formed by precipitation of calcium salts around a central core. Hard pea-sized nodule can be palpated in soft tissue. When on floor of mouth - can be seen radiographically. What lesions would clinically appear as a pigmented lesion? ✔✔Amalgam tattoo, post inflammatory melanosis, oral melanotic macule, labial melanotic macule, smokers melanosis What causes a mucocele? Where is the most common location for a mucocele? ✔✔Lesion that forms when a salivary duct is severed/ruptured and the mucous salivary gland secretion spills into the adjacent connective tissue (not true cyst). Most common on lower labial mucosa. Epulis fissuratum (denture-induced fibrous hyperplasia) is caused by: ✔✔An ill-fitting full or partial denture and is generally located in the vestibule along the denture flange, most commonly in anterior maxilla or mandible. The peripheral giant cell granuloma occurs only on the: ✔

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