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Question 1

What causes Linea Alba?

Answer 1

Pressure, sucking on the cheek

Question 2

How to tell if it’s Linea alba or not?

Answer 2

Bilateral and on the occlusal plane.

Question 3

What is Morsicatio Buccarum? What does it look like?

Answer 3

Linea alba bit ripped apart (chronic cheek chewing)

Thickened shredded white areas

Question 4

What are the three types of Morsicatio?

Answer 4

Buccarum
Labiorum
Linguarum

Question 5

What do traumatic ulerations look like?

Answer 5

Ulceration

Erythema surrounding a central removable yellow fibrin membrane

Question 6

What is TUGSE? What does is stand for?

Answer 6

Chronic Traumatic Ulceration (hard to heal)

Traumatic Ulcerative granuloma with Stromal Eosinophilia

Question 7

What is riga fede disease?

Answer 7

Chronic traumatic ulcerations on the tongue of natal teeth babies.

Question 8

Who mostly get’s electric burns and what do the burns look like?

Answer 8

Younger than 5 year old kids

Painless charred yellow area

Question 9

What do thermal burns look like?

Answer 9

Zones of erythema and ulceration (whitish ulceration and red around it)

Question 10

How can medicine cause chemical burns? (what are 3 common ones)?

Answer 10

Holding in the mouth

Aspirin, Bisphosphonates, Chlorpromazine

Question 11

What can cause chemical burns other than meds?

Answer 11

Hydrogen peroxide
Phenol
Silver Nitrate
Endo materials
Cotton rolls (make sure to wet the roll before removing it)

Question 12

What are 2 most common problems caused by “antineoplastic therapy” (radiation therapy)??

Answer 12

Mucositis

Hemorrhage

Question 13

What are 3 less common problems caused by radiation therapy?

Answer 13

Xerostomia
Osteoradionecrosis
Loss of taste

Question 14

How do bisphosphonates work?

Answer 14

Inhibit osteoclasts

Slow angiogenesis

Question 15

What are bisphosphonates used for?

Answer 15

Slow the osseous growth of cancer
Stop pagets disease
Reverse osteoporosis

Question 16

What’s the half life of a 2nd generation bisphosphonate?

Answer 16

10 years

Question 17

What’s the prevalence of osteonecrosis in IV vs Oral bisphosphonate?

Answer 17

IV: 6-8 %
Oral: 1:100,000

Question 18

Which age group and gender is most likely to use Meth?

Answer 18

Men: 20-40

Question 19

Why do meth users get such bad caries.

Answer 19

Poor oral care
Xerostomia
Sugary drinks

Question 20

What is exfoliative cheilitis?

Answer 20

Redness on lip corners from licking

Question 21

How do you diagnose an amalgam tattoo radiographically?

Answer 21

Look for amalgam flakes in the radiograph

Question 22

What does an antral pseudocyst look like?

Answer 22

Dome shaped radiopaque lesion in the floor of the sinus

Question 23

What is an antral pseudocyst ? What treatment recommended?

Answer 23

Serum exudate that has accumulated under the sinus mucosa and causes a bump.
No treatment necessary

Question 24

What would you call BRONJ if you don’t know it’s caused by Bisphosphonates?

Answer 24

Osteonecrosis

Question 25

What is palatal Petechia? Purpura? Echymosis?

What causes it?

Answer 25

The hemorrhage on the hard palate (smallest to biggest)

coughing, oral sex, anticoagulant, viral infection.

Question 26

What is the discoloration on gingiva called that occurs in dark skinned races?

Answer 26

Racial pigmentation