Acute Gingival Infection

Question 1

Which is involved in inflamed gums due to incompletely erupted tooth?
a. necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis
b. primary herpetic gingivostomatitis
c. pericoronitis

Answer 1

c. pericoronitis

Question 2

Which is associated with Tzanck cells, balloon degeneration, and acantholysis?
a. necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis
b. primary herpetic gingivostomatitis
c. pericoronitis

Answer 2

b. primary herpetic gingivostomatitis

Question 3

What is treatment for necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis? How does it work?

Answer 3

Penicillin or metroonizadole by reducing the course of infections. They both kill spirochetes

Question 4

What is the treatment for herpetic lesions?

Answer 4

palliative treatment and acyclovir ointment to shorten duration.

it’s important to note that even if give medication, it will still run it’s course

Question 5

When does primary herpetic gingivostomatitis occur in people?

Answer 5

usually before the age of 6 but can reappear as adults due to it’s living in the ganglia

Question 6

How does recurrent herpetic lesions reoccur?

Answer 6

stress, sunlight, or trauma

Question 7

Which has punched-out papilla, yellow-gray, sloughing, fetid order, pasty saliva, lymphadenopathy, and fever?
a. necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis
b. primary herpetic gingivostomatitis
c. pericoronitis

Answer 7

a. necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis

Question 8

T/F: Necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis can turn into necrotizing ulcerative periodontitis when Periodontal attachment and bone loss occurs.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

How deep has spirochetes been found from the surface in necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis?

Answer 9

330um

Question 10

Where is the most often location of pericontitis?

Answer 10

mandibular 3rd molar area

Question 11

In which do cells exhibit various degrees of hydrobic degeneration?
a. necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis
b. primary herpetic gingivostomatitis
c. pericoronitis

Answer 11

a. necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis

the surface epithelium is destroyed and replaced by a meshwork of fibrin, necrotic epithelial cells, and polymorphonuclear leukocytes

Question 12

How long do vesicles stay in primary herpetic gingivostomatitis?

Answer 12

24 hrs and then leave small painful ulcers with yellow/gray centers and a red halo

Question 13

In which can truisms and swelling of the cheek/angle of the jaw occur?
a. necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis
b. primary herpetic gingivostomatitis
c. pericoronitis

Answer 13

c. pericoronitis

Question 14

What is the treatment for pericoronitis?
a. eliminating cause
b. operculectomy procedure
c. extraction
d. all of the above

Answer 14

d. all of the above

Question 15

T/F: Performing an operculectomy will remove chance of reoccurrence in pericoronitis.

Answer 15

False.

Question 16

How long do herpetic lesions run their course?

Answer 16

10-14 days

Question 17

T/F: Both necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis and and herpetic lesions are contagious.

Answer 17

False.
Necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis is not contagious but herpetic lesions are.

Question 18

Where can vesicles form in primary herpetic gingivostomatitis?

Answer 18

gums, lips, buccal mucosa, soft palate, and tongue