15. Diseases of the facial bones Flashcards

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What occurs in osteoprosis, eg, what is the bone like?

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Decreased bone mass/density
Bone is normal structure but less quantity
May be due to less bone apposition, and increased loss

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What are the 2 types of osteoprosis?

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  • Localised
  • Generalised
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What are the reasons for generalised osteoporosis?

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Low calcium and vitamin D diet
Post menopausal- lack of oestrogen accelerates bone loss- 1-2% per year loss

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What other diseases is osteoporosis seen in?

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HPT, Addison’s, Thyrotoxicosis, Multiple myeloma
GI disturbances- malabsorption
Drugs- alcoholism, chemotherapy

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What are the symptoms of osteoporosis?

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Bone is more radiolucent
May predispose to pathological fractures
Might result in disappearance of alveolar bone

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What happens to the vertebral bodies in osteoporosis?

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They become shortened by compression fractures
Loss of horizontal trabeculae
Increased thickening of vertical trabeculae

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Who does primary hyperparathyroidism affect most?

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Middle aged females

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What may be the reason for primary hyperparathyroidism?

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Carcinoma
Adenoma
Hyperplasia of parathyroid gland

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What hormonal changes occur in primary hyperparathyroidism?

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Increase in levels of PTH
Intestinal absorption of Ca
Renal re-absorption of Ca
Osteoclastic resorption
Leading to Hypercalcaemia and hypercalciuria

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What can occur in primary hyperparathyroidism in the rest of the body?

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Kidney stones
Pathological metastatic calcifications that can spread to lungs, kidney and blood vessels

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What is the radiology for primary hyperparathyroidism?

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Radiolucent area

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What is the histology for primary hyperparathyroidism?

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5% develop brown tumours
Multinucleated giant cells, fibroblastic stroma, highly vascular, haemosiderin

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What is secondary hyperparathyrodisim?

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It is in response to hypocalcaemia
Due to chronic renal failure
Prolonged dialysis
Associated to rickets and osteomalacia

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What is tertiary hyperparathyrodism?

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Happens in patients with mild secondary parathyroidism who had a functioning kidney transplant
- Despite calcium and vitamin suppressor therapy, there is still autonomous proliferation with hyperfunction
- Patients continue to have overactive parathyroid glands

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What is rickets/osteomalacia due to?

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Deficiency
Lack of Ca
Resistance to Vit D

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What are vit D dependent factors in causing rickets/osteomalacia?

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Malabsorption
Dietary deficiency
Renal failure
Lack of sunlight exposure

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What is inherited vit D resistant rickets/osteomalacia called?

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Familial hypophosphatemia

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What drugs can cause effects in rickets/osteomalacia?

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Phenyotin- accelerated vitamin D metabolism

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What happens to bone in rickets/osteomalacia?

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Failure of mineralisation of bone
Wide seams of uncalcified osteoid

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What can happen dentally in severe cases of rickets/osteomalacia?

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Enamel hypoplasia
More interglobular dentine
Wide predentine
Delayed eruption

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21
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What is acromegaly due to?

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Increase in secretion of growth hormone
Adenoma of anterior pituitary gland

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What is the other type of acromegaly called?

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Gigantism- before epiphyses fused- localised effects
Acromegaly- after epiphyses fused- generalised effects

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What are localised effects of acromegaly?

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Headaches
Vision field loss- blindness- optic nerve

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What are metabolic effects of acromegaly?

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Large hands and feet
Relative microdontia
Macroglossia
Prognathism mandible

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What is an osteoma?

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Benign- neoplastic
Slow growing
Smaller than 2cm
Central or subperiosteal
Compact or cancellous type

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What are the features of Gardner’s syndrome?

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Multiple intestinal polyps
Multiple osteomas
Epidermoid cysts
Desmoid tumours
Supernumerary
Impacted
Odontomes

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What is exostoses?

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Non-neoplastic bony outgrowth
Slow growth, Compact or cancellous bone

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What can an exostoses be due to?

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Developmental
In response to some stimulus, eg. repeated trauma or free gingival grafts

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Give 2 examples of exostoses?

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Common in alveolar region
Torus palatinus- midline, more common than mandibular
Torus mandibularis- premolar area above mylohyoid line

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What is an osteoblastoma?

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Greater than 2cm
Rare in jaws
More common in tibia and fibula

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What is the histology and x ray for osteoblastoma?

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Looks similar to cementoblastoma, but not associated with roots
Random trabecular woven bone
Lined by osteoblasts and osteoclasts
Many blood vessels

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What is osteogenic sarcoma?

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Most common malignant neoplasm in jaw

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What ages does osteogenic sarcoma affect?

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People under 25
If occurs elsewhere, normally occurs in jaws 10 years after
Can be secondary to Paget’s and radiotherapy- then occurs older

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What are the types of osteogenic sarcoma?

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Intramedullary
Juxtacortical- near periosteum
Juxtacortical has better prognosis than intramedullary

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What is the prognosis of osteogenic sarcoma?

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In the jaws they are low grade tumours, that do not metastasise much but they recur
40%= 5 year survival rate

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What are the symptoms of osteogenic sarcoma?

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Tooth mobility
Pain
Lip paraesthesia
Swelling

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What is the histology of osteogenic sarcoma?

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Sun ray appearance
Widening of PDL
Mixed, radiolucent or radiopaque
Osteoclast like cells
Malignant osteoblasts forming osteoid on trabeculae
Very pleomorphic
Fibrous and chondroid tissue

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What is chondroma/chondrosarcoma?

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Occur in posterior mandible and anterior maxilla
May occur in tongue- chondroid metaplasia

39
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What do chondromas produce?

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May produce mature cartilage

40
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What is the treatment for chondroma/chondrosarcoma?

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Wide local excision

41
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What is the prognosis for chondroma and chondrosarcoma?

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Prognosis of malignant cases is poor
Does not metastasise frequently
Local recurrence is common

42
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What is the histology of chondrosarcoma?

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Highly cellular cartilage
Binucleate cells
More than one cell per lacunae
Mitoses

43
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What is cemento-ossifying fibroma?

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Fibrosseous lesion
Mandible-premolar area commonly
Well demarcated
Painless
Sometimes encapsulated
Benign neoplasm

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What is the radiology of Cemento-ossifying fibroma?

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Well demarcated
Radiolucent area with variable opacities
Expansion

45
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What is the tx for cemento-ossifying fibroma?

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Enucleation along capsule

46
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What is the differential diagnosis for cemento-ossifying fibroma?

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Fibrous dysplasia but does not blend with the surrounding bone

47
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What is the histology for cemento-ossifying fibroma?

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Fibrous tissue
Woven bone
Spherical deposits
Associated with vital tooth

48
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What is another name for giant cell tumour and where does it occur?

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Osteoclastoma, rare in jaws
20-40 years old
In other bones, it is aggressive and even metastatic

49
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What is the osteoclastoma the same entity as?

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CGCG but it is not as aggressive

50
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What is the treatment for GCT and CGCG?

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CGCG- curettage
GCT- radical/resection

51
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What is the histology of CGCG and GCT?

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Osteoclast like multinucleated giant cells- focal or scattered
Extravasated erythroyctes
Haemosiderin
Small spindle shape cells
Vascular stroma

52
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What are the 6 types of giant cell lesions?

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Browns tumour of hyperparathyroidism
Cherubism
GCT
CGCG
Giant cell epulis
Aneurysmal bone cyst

53
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What is myeloma? What are the 2 types?

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Malignant tumour of plasma cells
Solitary-plasmacytoma
Multifocal
BOTH affect jaws

54
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What age does myeloma affect?

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50-70 years

55
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How does myeloma occur?

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You get DNA damage which produces a damaged white blood cell (B cell)
A single clone of cells produces large amounts of immunoglobins in response to foreign antigen- normally IgG.

56
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What is the Ig in myeloma called?

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In serum or urine it is called M protein, or paraproteins or Bence-Jones protein

57
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What is seen systemically in myeloma?

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Elevated calcium
Renal failure
Anaemia/amyloidosis
Bone lesions

58
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What is the histology of myeloma?

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Myeloma cells resemble mature plasma cells
Multinucleate forms also seen

59
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What is the radiology of myeloma?

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Well demarcated appearance with punched out lesions
Pepper pot skull

60
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What are 2 examples of idiopathic lesions?

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Aneursymal bone cyst
Giant cell granuloma

61
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What is Langerhans cell histiocytosis types?

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Solitary- eosinophilic granuloma
Disseminated- Lettere-Siwe disease
Multifocal EG- Hand-schullter-christian syndrome
Collection of histiocytes and eosinophils

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What occurs to bone in Paget’s disease?

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Increased bone turnover
Disorganised remodelling and formation
Osteoblastic and osteoclastic dysfunction
Bone deformation

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What is the reason for Paget’s disease?

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Idiopathic
May be viral
Paramyxovirus infection

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What is the clinical course of Paget’s?

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  1. Primary osteolytic phase
  2. Mixed osteolysis and osteogenesis
  3. Predominantly osteoblastic (sclerotic) phase
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What bones do Paget’s mostly affect?

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Can be single or more rarely disseminated
Weight bearing bones

66
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What are the symptoms of Paget’s?

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Wider maxilla, wider skull
Deafness, blindness, pain, paraesthesia due to nerve compression
Osteosarcoma

67
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What is seen in the serum in Paget’s?

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Increased levels of alkaline phosphatase
Normal calcium and phosphate

68
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What is the radiology of Paget’?

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Radiolucent osteolytic areas with patchy sclerotic areas
Cotton woll patchy appearance

69
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What is the dental symptoms of Paget’s?

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Hypercementosis
Ankylosis
Loss of laminar dura
Dentures do not fit
Difficult XLA
Post op bleeding- ostelytic- lots of BV
Occlusion derangament

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What is the histology of Paget’s?

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Abnormally large osteoclasts
Mosaic pattern
Reverse lines where it has gone from bone deposition to bone resoprtion
Osteoclastic and osteoblastic activity

71
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What are developmental diseases of TMJ?

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Aplasia
Hypoplasia
Hyperplasia

72
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What is aplasia TMJ?

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Rare
Uni or bilateral
Often associated with other diseases- hemifacial microsomnia

73
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What is hypoplastic TMJ?

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Acquired or developmental
Trauma
Infection during development

74
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What is hyperplastic TMJ?

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Cause unknown
Unilateral-facial asymmetry
Self limiting

75
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What can inflammatory diseases of the TMJ be split into?

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Traumatic
Infective
Autoimmune
Degenerative

76
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What can traumatic disease of TMJ be?

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Fracture
Ankylosis
Trauma
Dislocation

77
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What can infective disease of TMJ be?

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Gonococcal
Viral
Staph Aureus

78
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What is degenerative disease of TMJ?

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Osteoarthrosis (itis)
Rare before 40
Limited opening, deviation on movement, crepitus, pain
Vertical splits in cartilage- fibrillation
Fragmentation
Bone exposure- denudation
Thickening- eburnation

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What are functional diseases of TMJ?

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Myofascial pain dysfunction syndrome
Trismus

80
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What are symptoms of MPDS?

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Limited opening
Pain
Clicking
Bruxism- stress- occlusal problems

81
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What is trismus?

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Limited movement
Intra-auricular- dislocation, fracture, trauma, infection, ankylosis
Extra-auricular- infection, fracture, haematoma, MPDS, tetanus

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How does RA affect?

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Eroded articular surfaces by vascular pannus
Disc destruction
Bone resorption
Limited opening
Fibrous ankylosis- ossifies