Chapter 16 Flashcards
What is one of the most common diseases worldwide and is the main cause of tooth loss before age 35?
Caries
Tooth decay
Tooth degradation due to mineral dissolution - acids released by oral bacteria during sugar fermentation
What are the signs and symptoms of Caries?
Pain
Weight loss/Nutrition problems
Loss of self confidence/esteem
Potential life-threatening infections
What is gingivitis?
Soft tissue inflammation of the squamous mucosa and tissue around teeth Erythema Edema Bleeding Gingival degeneration Contributes to caries REVERSIBLE DISEASE
What results in gingivitis?
Poor oral hygiene ->
Dental plaque - sticky, colorless, biofilm with mixture of bacteria, salivary proteins, and desquamated epithelial cells
Unresolved plaque -> calculus (tartar)
Patients that gingivitis is most prevalent and severe?
Adolescence
What is Periodontitis?
Inflammatory process that affects the supporting structures of the teeth (periodontal ligaments), alveolar bone, and cementum
Leads to eventual loss of teeth
Periodontitis-associated plaque contains what organisms?
Anaerobic and microaerophilic gram-negative flora
Clinical presentation of Periodonitis
Typically presents without any associated disorders - poor oral hygiene
Can be a component of systemic diseases: AIDS, Leukemia, Crohn disease, Diabetes, Down syndrome, Sarcoidosis, Neutrophil defect
Often recurrent, exceedingly painful, superficial, shallow oral mucosal lesion, with mononuclear infiltrate that is most common in the first 2 decades of life
Aphthous Ulcers (canker sores)
Aphthous Ulcer Patient history
Familial
Recurrent ulcers may be associated with Celiac disease, IBD, and Behcet disease
non viral
Resolution spontaneously in 7-10 days
Fibrous proliferative lesions, benign or malignant?
Benign
Traumatic fibroma and progenitor granuloma
Traumatic/irritation fibromas
Occur along bite line
Smooth pink exophytic nodule on buccal mucosa (squamous mucosa)
Benign
Pyogenic granuloma
Highly vascular, Gingival mass
Growth is alarmingly rapid
Can regress, mature into dense fibrous masses, or develop peripheral ossifying fibroma
Benign
Pyogenic granuloma commonly seen in what pts?
Children, young adults, and pregnant women (pregnancy tumor)
What infections classically cause cold sores? Describe how they heal
Herpes simplex virus (HSV-1 and -2)
Vesicles heal spontaneously in a few weeks, virus becomes dormant
Reactivation driven by trauma, infection or immune suppression (vesicles clear in a few days)
HSV1 infection can be associated with what additional clinical symptoms?
Lymphadenopathy, fever, anorexia, and irritability
Morphology of HSV infections and diagnostic test
Lesions: vesicles, large bullae, or shallow ulceration (rupture)
Eosinophilia intranuclear inclusions
Multinucleate polykarons (giant cells)
Tzanck test
what is the most common fungal infection of the oral cavity?
Candida albicans - part of normal oral flora in half the population
Clinical presentation of Oral candidiasis and pt history
Pseudomembranous form (thrush): Superficial gray-white inflammatory membranes composed of fibrinosuppurative exudates (can be scrapped off) Occurs in setting of broad-spectrum antibiotics, diabetes, neutropenia, or immunodeficiency Remains superficial unless immunosuppressed
What fungal infections have a predilection for the oral cavity and head and neck region? Also include key features of fungus
Histoplasmosis - Bats, birds, caves
Blastomycosis - Broad based budding yeast
Coccidioidomycosis - San Joaquin valley fever complex
Aspergillosis
Cryptococcosis
Zygomycosis (DM and mucormycosis)
What is the key predisposing factor of deep fungal infections?
Immunosuppression
- HIV/AIDs
- Organ transplant
- Cancer therapy
Scarlet fever
Group A hemolytic strep
Fiery red tongue with prominent papillae (raspberry tongue)
White-coated tongue with papillae (strawberry tongue)
Measles
Spotty enanthema in oral cavity before skin rash
Koplik spots
coryza, conjunctiva, cough in a kid
Paramyxovirus
Warthin finkeldey - multinucleated giant cell found in LN early in course of measles
Infectious mononucleosis (mono)
LN enlargement Fatigue, sore throat (acute pharyngitis and tonsillitis) Gray-white exudative membrane Hepatosplenomegaly EBV Palatial petechiae