Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology - Tips and Tricks

Your Guide to Success

Adel M Abdel-Azim, Ahmed A Abdel-Azim

• Publisher: PublishDrive
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781734188226
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Dentistry

A unique book that collects similar disease manifestations, related histopathological features, similar confusable cell names, phenomena, radiographic pictures, and important syndromes. The book is indispensable for the last-minute review of the pathology before you are subjected to written, oral, practical, chair-side exams or board certification.

1 How to Use this Book

This book is by no way an alternative to the standard pathology textbooks. After finish studying a standard textbook, proceed in and return to this book to comprehend and assemble your knowledge. You can use the companion book “Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology: A Study Guide” by the same authors as a start point.

This book is designed to help the students and clinicians memorize diseases by organizing and categorizing disease entities according to their most important or identifiable pathological, radiographic, and clinical features. For example, disorders with similar or notable histological features are grouped together. Also, the most prominent and famous phenomena are mentioned collectively.

The most critical syndromes are mentioned in alphabetical order with a synopsis of their most characteristic features. Besides, you will find a chapter on normal variants that could be mistaken for diseases, lesions of infants and newly born, essential tests and histological stains used in the differential diagnosis are put together with samples of written and chair-side exams. Finley, you will find a chapter for the bad, obsolete, or problematic terms used in pathology with a valuable glossary and definitions.

2 Normal Variants That Could be Mistaken as Disease

Some normal variants of the oral mucosa or teeth might be mistaken as diseases. The general practitioner should be aware of them.

2.1 Cusp of Carabelli

• Is an extra cusp or tubercle or groove found on the palatal surface of the upper first molar and to a lesser extent in the upper second molar.
• This cusp may be entirely absent in some individuals and present in others but in a variety of sizes, sometimes very prominent, and in other instances, be very small and unrecognizable.
• Most common among Europeans (75–85% of individuals).
• It was found that more than half of the Saudi population have a degree of expression of the Carabelli cusp and the Carabelli trait is associated with increased caries incidence [5].
• It appears to be genetically determined.

2.2 Peg-shaped Lateral Incisor

• A peg-shaped lateral is a small, tapered, maxillary lateral incisor.
• The tooth is conical in shape and tapers incisally to a blunt point.
• Peg shaped teeth develop from a single lobe instead of four.
• The condition appears to have a genetic basis.
• The condition is considered as a type of microdontia.
• Prevalence of unilateral and bilateral lateral incisors is the same, however, the left side was twice as common as the right side.
• Individuals with unilateral peg-shaped maxillary lateral incisors might have a 55% chance of having lateral incisor anodontia on the contralateral side [27].