Non-infective stomatitis

Question 1

AKA canker sores?

Answer 1

Recurrent Aphthous Stomatitis

Question 2

What triggers canker sores?

Answer 2

trauma, emotional stress, dental procedures

Question 3

canker sores in childhood affecting females > males, on moveable mucosa, 7 to 14 day healing (what percentage as well?)

Answer 3

Minor aphthae (80%)

Question 4

canker sores onset in adulthood, may affect soft palate, tonsillar fauces, or pharyngeal mucosa, 2-6 weeks to heal, may scar, recurrent episodes (what percentage as well?)

Answer 4

Major aphthae (10%)

Question 5

Major aphthae AKA?

Answer 5

Sutton’s disease

Question 6

Female adult onset ulcers in clusters, looks like HSV, (what percentage as well?)

Answer 6

Herpetiform aphthae (10%)

Question 7

What is associated with systemic diseases, GI malabsorption diseases (Crohn’s) and vitamin deficiencies?

Answer 7

Pseudo aphthae

Question 8

Chronic recurrent disease resulting from systemic vasculitis, lesions similar to aphthous ulcers, postules on skin, gentalia, corneal ulceration, 10-25% CNS involvement causing paralysis and dementia?

Answer 8

Behcet’s syndrome

Question 9

What can dentists prescribe for Behcet’s syndrome?

Answer 9

Chlorhexidine and systemic/topical steroids

Question 10

Middle age females (2/3 of patients) disease affecting skin/oral mucosa, reticular, Wickham’s striae, redness, ulceration?

Answer 10

Lichen Planus

Question 11

Lichen planus is the most common cause of what?

Answer 11

desquamative gingivitis (painful gingivitis)

Question 12

Lesions that look like Lichen planus but associated with systemic drugs, hypersensitivity reactions to cinnamon and amalgam and epithelial dysplasia

Answer 12

Lichenoid reactions

Question 13

Adults 40’s and 50’s, Epithelial desquamation producing painful superficial erosions and ulcerations on gingiva, dentist can induce epithelial separation

Answer 13

Pemphigus