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Oral mucosal disease/ reactive lesions of the oral mucosa/soft tissue lesions Flashcards

1
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2 histological features of white lesions in general?

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  • Keratosis
  • Acanthosis
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Why are white lesions white?

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  • Thickening of the mucosa
  • Keratosis
  • Less blood in tissues - vasoconstriction
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Define leukoplakia?

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A white patch that cannot be scrapped off or attributed to any other cause

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Malignancy rate of leukoplakia?

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1-5% become malignant

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What is this ?

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Smoker’s keratosis

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What are 2 histological features of smoker’s / traumatic keratosis?

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  • Keratosis
  • Melanin pigment
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How many times are smokers more likely to have leukoplakia?

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6 times

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What is this?

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Hereditary keratosis (white spong naevus)

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What might have caused this?

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Aspirin burn

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When would you refer a white lesion ? (3)

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  • If it is becoming more raised and thickened
  • If the cause in unknown
  • If it is in a high risk area in the mouth
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What are the high risk areas in the mouth?

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  • Lateral border of the tongue
  • Soft palate
  • Anterior floor of the mouth
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Why are red lesions red?

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  • Blood flow increases due to inflammation or dysplasia
  • Reduced thickness of the epithelium
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What is erythroplakia?

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A red patch does not have a known cause , more malignancy rate than leukoplakia

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14
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Why might a lesion appear blue/red?

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  • Due to fluid in the connective tissue
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Why might a lesion appear dark blue?

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Due to slow moving blood (enlarged veins)

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What are examples of dark blue lesions?

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Veins or cavernous haemangioma

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Why might a lesion appear light blue?

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filled with clear fluid

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18
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Examples of light blue lesions?

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  • Mucoceles - saliva
  • Lymphangioma - Lymph
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What are the two types of haemangioma?

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  • Capillary
  • Cavernous
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What is this?

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Lymphangiom - most are cavernous

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21
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Give 3 examples of vasculitic diseases?

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  • Large vessel disease - Giant cell arteritis
  • Medium vessel disease - Kawasaki disease
  • Small vessel disease - Granulomatosis with polyangitis
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What are the 3 general causes of mucosal pigmentation?

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  • Exogenous
  • Intrinsic pigmentation
  • Intrinsic foreign body
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23
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4 exogenous causes of mucosal pigmentation?

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  • Tea
  • Coffee
  • Chlorhexidine
  • Bacterial overgrowth
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4 intrinsic causes of mucosal pigmentation?

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  • Melanotic macule
  • Melanoma
  • Melanotic Naevus
  • Effect of systemic disease Addison disease
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What 2 forgein bodies that usually cause pigmentation in the oral cavity?

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  • Amalgam
  • Arsenic
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Give a disease that may cause localised brown or black lesions in the oral mucosa?

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  • Kaposi’s sarcoma
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27
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Give a disease that may cause generalised pigmentation and why?

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Addison’s disease due to raised ACTH

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What 2 investigations might be carried out when you see mucosal pigmentation with a patient with addison’s disease?

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  • Check BP
  • Electrolyte test
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29
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When to refer a mucosal pigmentation?

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  • Increasing in size
  • Increasing in colour
  • Increasing in quantity
  • Cause not known
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3 common causes of mucosal inflammation?

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  • Trauma - physical or chemical
  • Infection - viral, bacterial or fungal
  • immunological
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What 4 things would make you suspect that a pigmentation is a melanoma?

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  • variable pigmentation
  • irregular outline
  • Raised surface
  • Symptomatic
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32
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When should you must biopsy a red, pigmented or white patch?

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If it is unexplained

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33
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Name these arrows?

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  • Stratum corneum
  • Stratum granulosim
  • Stratum Spinosum
  • Basal
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34
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In the epithelial layers, where does cell division occur?

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Basal and suprabasal cells

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What does parakeratosis mean?

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Keratinisation of nonkeratinised site

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36
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What does acanthosis mean?

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Hyperplasia of stratum spinosum

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37
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What does elongated rete ridges indicate?

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Hyperplasia of basal cells

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38
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What does epithelium atrophy?

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Reduction in viable layers

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39
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What does epithelium erosion mean?

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Partial thickness loss

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40
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What does epithelium ulceration mean?

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Fibrin on surface due to full thickness loss of epithelium

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What are the 2 types of blisters?

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Vesicle or bulla

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42
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What are three symptoms of geographic tongue?

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  • Sensitivity to acidic and spicy food
  • Can be intermittent
  • Worse in younger children
  • Most patients have no symptoms
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43
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Give 3 conditions which can cause geographic tongue?

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  • haematininc deficiency
  • Parafunctional trauma
  • Oral dysaesthesia
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What might cause this?

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  • Bacterial accumulation
  • Thickening and elongation of filiform papila
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45
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How can you manage this? (2)

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  • Tongue scrub - peach stone
  • Chlorhexidine
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What is this?

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Fissured tongue

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47
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How to manage fissured tongue?

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Brush with soft brush

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48
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If a patient had a fissured tongue give rise to symptoms what 2 conditions might cause these symptoms?

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  • Candida infection
  • Lichen planus
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49
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What is this?

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Glossitis - inflammation of the tongue

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50
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A patient present with glossitis, what 2 special investigations would you take?

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  • Haematinics
  • Fungal cultures - oral swab or rinse
  • Biopsy
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When would you refer a mucocele?

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When it becomes fixed in size

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52
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When would you refer a swelling in the oral mucosa? give 4 cases

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  • Symptomatic
  • Trauma from teeth
  • Increasing in size
  • Rubbery consistency
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53
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What 3 things would you not consider referral for (swellings)

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  • Tori
  • Small polyps - would cause more damage if removed
  • mucoceles
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54
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What is this?

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Papillary hyperplasia of the palate caused by ill fitting dentures

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55
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What do we call this?

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Leaf fibroma - a polyp that is flattened due to denture wearing

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56
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What is this?

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A fibroepithelial polyp

57
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What is this? how would manage?

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A mucocele, leave as it is small

58
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What is this? how would you manage?

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A mucocele , excision of mucocele and gland causing it

59
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What is this? how might it happen?

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Tori , clenching , not recommended to remove

60
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Which group of patients get necrosis of the mucosa overlying a tori?

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  • Patients taking bisphosphonates , this happens due to poor blood supply
61
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What is this?

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Pyogenic granuloma

62
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What is a pyogenic granuloma?

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  • A swelling that does not have an epithelial surface with inflamed granulation tissue which have a fibro-vascular background
63
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What might cause pyogenic granuloma?

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Trauma

64
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What do we call a pyogenic granuloma of the gingivae?

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Vascular epulis

65
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What do we call a pyogenic granuloma on the gingivae during pregnancy?

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Pregnancy epulis

66
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What are the 3 types of mucosa ?

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  • Lining
  • Masticatory
  • Gustatory
67
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What type of epithelium is present on the cheek?

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Non-keratinised

68
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What type of epithelium is present on the palate?

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Keratinised

69
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What is the definition of dysplasia?

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Abnormal maturation in a tissue

70
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What is this?

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Cellular atypia

71
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What does Atypia describes?

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changes in cells

72
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What can nutritional deficiency cause in the oral mucosa?

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  • Atrophy
  • Predisposition to infection
73
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The oral mucosa can react to trauma , what 3 things does this depend on?

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  • Irritation
  • Time
  • Person
74
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What are 6 forms of oral mucosa reactions?

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  • Inflammation
  • Keratosis
  • Ulceration
  • Formation of vesicles or bullae
  • Fibrous tissue formation
75
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What are epulides?

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  • Soft tissue swellings on the gingivae only
76
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What might cause epulides?

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A reaction to chronic inflammation or trauma

77
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What 2 other types of soft tissue swellings are present in the gingivae other than epulides?

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  • Odontogenic tumours
  • Cysts
78
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How would you describe a lesion on the gingivae that does not originate from jaw bone?

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Peripheral

79
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What is a fibrous epulis?

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  • A fibrous overgrowth that can be described as a localised gingival hyperplasia which forms as a reaction to chronic irritation
80
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3 histological features of fibrous epulis?

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  • Ulceration
  • Granulation tissue
  • Metaplastic bone formation
81
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What is this?

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Vascular epulis as a response to trauma

82
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2 histological featured of vascular epulis?

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  • Blood vessels
  • Granulation tissue
83
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What do we call a vascular epulis on the tongue?

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  • Pyogenic granuloma
84
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What are these?

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Giant cell lesions

85
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What do we call a giant cell granuloma in the bone?

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Central giant cell granuloma

86
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What do we call a giant cel granuloma on the soft tissues?

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Peripheral giant cell granuloma

87
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What do we call a giant cell granuloma on the gingivae/alveolus

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Epulis

88
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What is this?

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Giant cell epulis

89
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Histological feature of giant cell epulis?

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The presence of giant cells

90
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What are giant cells?

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Fused macrophages

91
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What 3 things might cause giant cell lesions?

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  • local chronic irritation
  • infections - such as tuberculosis bacillus
  • Hormonal stimulation of cells - osteoclasts
  • Autoimmune-sarcoidosis
92
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What systemic disease should you exclude when investigating giant cell lesions ?

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  • Hyperparathyroidism because it may present the same lesions as giant cell lesions
  • may caused by low vit D , malabsorption and renal disease
93
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What is this?

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Fibroepithelial polyp ( traumatic fibroma)

94
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What is this?

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Thick fibrous tissue in fibroepithelial polyp

95
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A patient wears a denture and is present with a fibrous overgrowth under the denture area , what do we call this and what causes it ?

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Leaf fibroma

96
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What is this?

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Denture induced hyperplasia

97
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What is this?

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Papillary hyperplasia of the palate associated with upper denture use

98
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What might be present with papillary hyperplasia of the palate?

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Candida infection

99
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What is this ?

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Pseudo-epitheliomatous hyperplasia

100
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What is this?

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Drug induced fibrous overgrowth

101
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What 4 drugs might induce this?

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  • Anti-hypertensives - Calcium channel blockers
  • Anti-epileptics - phenytoin
  • Immunosuppressant - cyclosporine
102
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What treatment option might be suitable for drug induced fibrous overgrowth?

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  • Repeated gingivectomy
103
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This patient is pregnant and presents with this, what do we call it and what might have caused it ?

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  • Pregnancy gingivitis due to increased progesterone hormone levels leading to exaggerated response to plaque
  • Can be reduced by OHI
104
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What is a haemangioma?

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A hamartoma which is a vascular malfomation

105
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Which syndrome is associated with vascular lesions?

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Sturge weber syndrome

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What are the two types of haemangiomas? and how do they differ histologically?

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  • Capillary - multiple capillaries , small vessels
  • Cavernous - veins , large vessels
107
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Why is a biopsy useful?

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  • Can confirm or establish a diagnosis
  • Can determine prognosis
108
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4 ways of tissue sampling?

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  • Fine needle aspiration - Salivary gland lesions
  • Punch biopsy -
  • Incisional biopsy (type of incisional)
  • Excisional biopsy
109
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2 advantages of aspirational biopsy?

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  • Avoid contamination with oral commensals
  • Protect anaerobic species
110
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When would you use an excisional biopsy?

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when you are sure about the provisional diagnosis or in descrete lesions

111
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When would you use an incisional biopsy?

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  • uncertain diagnosis
  • large lesions
112
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What is the advantage of punch biopsy?

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  • minimal damage
  • may not require suturing
    It consist of a hollow trephine 4,6,8mm in diameter
113
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When you take a biopsy of an ulcer , from where would you take the biopsy?

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the edge of the ulcer to include periolesional tissue

114
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When you send a biopsy to the lab , in what solution would place it and what concentration?

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10% formalin

115
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What might you do the biopsied lesion to help the pathologist orientate the sample?

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Suture it

116
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What would avoid using on the sample and why?

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Gauze as it can distort the sample
* use filter paper instead

117
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What might have caused the problem with this histological sample?

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Crushing

118
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What may have caused the problem with this sample?

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Tear

119
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What 4 areas you want to avoid when taking a biopsy?

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  • Salivary gland ducts
  • Tip of the tongue
  • areas close to nerves
  • areas close to larger blood vessels
120
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What might have caused a fibrous epulis?

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  • overhanging restorations
  • subgingival calculus
121
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How would you manage a fibrous epulis?

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  • Excisional biopsy and coe back dressing
  • remove source of irritation
122
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What are the most two common places of a fibroepithelial poly?

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  • buccal mucosa
  • inner surface of the lip
123
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Where is a common place for giant cell epulis?

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Anterior regions of the mouth in teenagers

124
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A patient present with a giant cell epulis, why would you take a radiograph?

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To ensure it is not centrally originated

125
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How would you manage a giant cell epulis?

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  • Surgical excision with curettage of base
  • coe pack dressing
126
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How would you manage a haemangioma?

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  • Surgical removal
  • Cryotherapy
127
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What is the disadvantage of cryotherapy?

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No histological examination

128
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What is a lipoma?

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A benign neoplasm of fat , excise

129
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What two things may be related to pregnancy epulis?

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  • Hormonal changes
  • Calculus - often bleed easily
130
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How would you manage a pregnancy epulis?

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  • if small leave as may regress after birth
  • if large excision
131
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how does pyogenic granuloma form?

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  • Trauma to soft tissue leads to failure of normal healing resulting in overgrowth of granulation tissue
132
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What is this?

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Squamous cell papilloma neoplasm

133
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Which 3 surfaces do squamous cell papilloma affect?

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  • Buccal mucosa
  • Lips
  • Palate
134
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Most common region of denture hyperplasia?

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Lower labial sulcus

135
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How would you manage denture hyperplasia?

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  • Adjust denture
  • remove excess tisse
136
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What is the most common problem associated with salivary gland?

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Mucocele

137
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What so we call a mucocele at the floor of the mouth?

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  • Ranula
138
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3 classical descriptions of squamous cell carcinoma?

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  • Ulcerated
  • Rolled margin
  • Induration

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