Developmental Disturbances Flashcards
Bilateral cleft lip
Cleft palate
Bifid Uvula
What difficulties can cleft lip/palate cause?
difficulty speaking, eating, especially babies when they cant feed properly
What is the least severe form of cleft palate?
Bifid uvula
commissural lip pit
What developmental issue causes commissural lip pits?
fusion of soft tissue of mand and max of lip
Paramedian lip pits
double lip
What are fordyce granules?
ectopic sebaceous glands
Are fordyce granules common?
Yes 80%!
fordyce granules
fordyce granules
Leukoedema
How common is leukoedema?
VERY COMMON 90%
Leukoedema
What are results of diascopy test for leukoedema?
Positive
oral melanotic macule
oral melanotic macule
most common location of oral mealanotic macule?
lower lip vermillion. can also be muccal mucosa, gingiva, and palate. Tongue too but rare
microglossia
ankyloglossia
What procedure would we do for ankyloglossia?
frenectomy
What problems could someone with ankyloglossia have?
stress on attached gingiva
fissured tongue
in extreme cases of fissured tongue, what is an issue that the patient may experience?
halitosis (bacterial compaction in fissures)
What are other names for benign migratory glossitis?
geographic tongue; erythema migrans
Is benign migratory glossitis common?
YES
What exactly occurs during benign migratory glossitis?
loss of filiform papilla (transient)
4 types of papillae?
- filiform papillae
- circumvallate papillae
- foliate papillae
- filiform papillae
How can we confirm a patient has benign migratory glossitis?
take a picture and compare in a couple weeks.
What is the cause of hairy tongue?
elongated filiform papillae
benign migratory glossitis
hairy tongue
hairy tongue
Oral varices (oral varicosities)
What would results of a diascopy test be on oral varices?
Positive (no extravascular blood). Its just dilated veins
Common locaiton of oral varices?
ventral surface of tongue
What can oral varices lead to?
Blood clot (slow blood movement); thrombosed varix
buccal exostoses
torus palatinus