Study Guide Flashcards
- What is Punch biopsy? Where do you use it
a. * A surgical instrument is used to punch out a representative portion of tissue.
b. * The punch comprises a circular blade attached to a plastic handle. Diameters of two to ten millimetres are available.
c. * The punch removes a core of tissue the base of which can be simply and atraumatically released using curved scissors.
d. * The resultant wound may not require suturing if using the smaller diameter punches.
a. Indications for antibiotics
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i. Rapidly progressive swelling
ii. Diffuse swelling (cellulitis)
iii. Fascial space involvement
iv. Compromised host defenses
v. Severe pericoronitis
vi. Osteomyelitis
vii. Trauma
b. Principles of Antibiotic therapy:
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i. Use Empiric Therapy
ii. Use narrowest spectrum drug
iii. Use antibiotic with the lowest toxicity
iv. Use bactericidal antibiotic
v. Be aware of Cost
When do you use narrow spectrum vs broad spectrum
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- Most definitive treatment for dental infection is….
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i. Remove the cause of infection.
ii. Establish drainage.
iii. Choose and prescribe the appropriate Antibiotics
iv. Supportive care, including proper rest and nutrition
v. Re-evaluate the patient frequently
a. What is cellulitis, including physiological level
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i. Diffuse, reddened, brawny swelling that is tender to palpation.
ii. Inflammatory response not yet forming a true abscess.
iii. Microorganisms have just begun to overcome host defenses and spread beyond tissue planes.
b. What is Abscess…..
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i. As inflammatory response matures and an abscess develops.
ii. An abscess is a localized collection of pus.
iii. May develop spontaneous drainage intraorally or extra orally
- Different types of treatment for different types of Osteomyelitis
a. Both medical and surgical interventions are required. Medical therapy alone will not suffice, and will only delay appropriate treatment. Tissues from the affected site should be sent for microbiological exam, culture and sensitivity, and histopathological examination. Immunocompromised states should be controlled medically to achieve optimum response to therapy
- Different types of treatment for different types of Osteomyelitis
b. Osteomyelitis – Medical Treatment
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i. Begin empiric antibiotic treatment based on Gram stain(microbiological exam) results.
ii. Best choice of antibiotic can be determined following C & S results, which can take several days
iii. IV antibiotic therapy for 6 weeks is routinely used
iv. Treatment may include carbapenems, cephalosporins, fluoroquinolones, Clindamycin, Metronidazole, or combination therapy. Infectious disease consult may be considered HBO therapy for chronic refractory osteomyelitis may be considered
- Different types of treatment for different types of Osteomyelitis
c. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy(HBOT)
i. Hyperbaric oxygen is indicated in treatment of “Chronic Refractory osteomyelitis”
ii. Chronic refractory osteomyelitis is a persistent or recurrent bone infection lasting longer than six months despite appropriate surgical and medical treatment
iii. HBOT involves placing a patient in a chamber where they breathe 100% oxygen at increased atmospheric pressure.
iv. A typical course of treatment for Chronic refractory osteomyelitis consists of a 90 minute session for five days per week for 20 to 60 treatments based on their condition
v. Hyperbaric oxygen treatment – Mechanism of action
1. Enhanced leukocyte oxidative killing
2. Neo-Angiogenesis
3. Osteogenesis
4. Synergistic antibiotic activity
- Different types of treatment for different types of Osteomyelitis
d. Sequestrectomy
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i. Sequestrectomy is the removal of infected and avascular pieces of bone.
ii. Since the sequestrum is avascular, antibiotics will not be able to penetrate into it.
- Different types of treatment for different types of Osteomyelitis
e. Saucerization
i. Saucerization involves the removal of the adjacent bony cortices and open packing to permit healing by secondary intention after the infected bone has been removed. Here the margins of the bone which lodge the sequestra are trimmed down. This create a saucer shaped defect instead of a deep hollow cavity. This saucer shaped defect can’t accumulate a large clot
- Different types of treatment for different types of Osteomyelitis
f. Decortication
i. Decortication – involves removal of the dense, chronically infected, and poorly vascularized bony cortex and placement of the vascular periosteum adjacent to the medullary bone to allow increased blood flow and healing in the affected area.
ii. Key element is cutting back to healthy bleeding bone – clinical judgement.
- Different types of treatment for different types of Osteomyelitis
g. Additional considerations
i. May support weakened mandible using external fixation, reconstruction plate, or MMF.
ii. Segmental resection usually a last resort following multiple attempts at more conservative debridement
- Odontogenic tumor (know the demographics, treatment)
a. AOT
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i. This is a tumor that is commonly found in teenagers.
ii. It occurs in the middle and anterior portions of the jaws
iii. Commonly associated with the crown of an impacted anterior tooth.
iv. Two-thirds occur in the maxilla and it is more common in females.
v. The maxillary incisor-cuspids are common sites.
vi. Painless expansion is often the chief complaint.
vii. The radiographic appearance is a unilocular radiolucency, often around the crown of an unerupted tooth in which case they resemble a dentigerous cyst.
viii. Treatment is with simple surgical enucleation and recurrence is extremely rare.
- Odontogenic tumor (know the demographics, treatment)
b. Ameloblastoma (please know ameloblastoma well, this is one the crappy pathology that dentist
i. must know well without excuse. Where do you see them, what they looks like
ii. on x-ray…….)
- Benign, but locally invasive (Except for the Malignant variant).
- It is unencapsulated and infiltrates surrounding bone marrow.
- Even though they are locally infiltrative, they do not metastasize (Except for the Malignant variant).
- Occasionally arise from dentigerous cysts.
- Clinical Subtypes –
a. Multicystic or Solid (86%),
b. Unicystic (13%),
c. Peripheral (extraosseous) and Malignant variant (1%) - It occurs chiefly in middle age people long after odontogenesis has ceased.
- They may occur in any part of both jaws but most are in the middle and posterior regions of the mandible.
- Radiographic findings
a. They may be unilocular but frequently become multilocular as they increase in size.
b. The unilocular lesion is indistinguishable from an odontogenic cyst.
c. Well-circumscribed, “soap- bubble appearance” (Multicystic or Solid variant). - Treatment
a. According to growth characteristics and type
b. Unicystic Ameloblastoma –
i. Complete removal (Enucleation)
ii. Peripheral ostectomies if extension through cyst wall
c. Classic infiltrative (aggressive) –
i. “Solid Ameloblastoma”
ii. Mandibular – adequate normal bone around margins of resection
iii. Maxillary – more aggressive surgery, 1.5 cm margins
d. Ameloblastic carcinoma –
i. Radical surgical resection (like SCCa) – Neck dissection
- Odontogenic tumor (know the demographics, treatment)
c. Odontoma
i. Compound and Complex Odontomas
1. The tumors in which odontogenic differentiation is fully expressed are the odontomas. In these tumors, the epithelium and ectomesenchyme realize their potential and make enamel and dentin respectively. As a result, these tumors are mostly radiodense. Odontomas are the most common type of odontogenic tumors seen in the oral surgery clinic.
ii. Complex Odontoma
1. In the complex odontoma, there is little or no tendency to form tooth-like structures.
2. The dentin and enamel are entwined in a mass that bears no resemblance to teeth
iii. Compound Odontoma
1. In the compound odontoma, multiple small and malformed toothlike structures are formed creating a “bag of marbles” radiographic appearance.
iv. Complex and Compound Odontomas
1. Both types of odontoma are found in the early years, usually in the teens or early twenties.
2. Compound odontoma is more common in the anterior jaw segment whereas the complex type is found more commonly in the posterior jaws.
3. Many are associated with an unerupted tooth.
4. They have a limited growth potential and cause no pain or cosmetic deformity.
5. Treatment is elective surgery
- How does Odontogenic tumor classified?
a. I. Tumors of odontogenic epithelium
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i. Ameloblastoma
1. Malignant ameloblastoma
2. Ameloblastic carcinoma
ii. Clear cell odontogenic carcinoma
iii. Adenomatoid odontogenic tumor
iv. Calcifying epithelial odontogenic tumor
v. Squamous odontogenic tumor
- How does Odontogenic tumor classified?
b. Mixed odontogenic tumors
i. Ameloblastic fibroma
ii. Ameloblastic fibro-odontoma
iii. Ameloblastic fibrosarcoma
iv. Odontoameloblastoma
v. Compound odontoma
vi. Complex odontoma
- How does Odontogenic tumor classified?
c. Tumors of odontogenic ectomesenchyme
i. Odontogenic fibroma
ii. Granular cell odontogenic tumor
iii. Odontogenic myxoma
iv. Cementoblastoma
- Surgical Treatment types for Odontogenic tumor
a. Surgical Management includes:
i. “Surgical removal” of the odontogenic tumor followed by appropriate method for reconstruction of the defect. The type of surgical approach that is going to be employed is mainly dependent ion the type (Biologic behavior) of the tumor and it’s size. The type of reconstruction is mainly decided based on the size and extent of the defect (Both Hard and Soft tissue)
- Surgical Treatment types for Odontogenic tumor
b. Enucleation
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i. Local removal of tumor by appropriate instrumentation in direct contact with the lesion: used for very benign types of lesions.
ii. Tumor Is Then Sent for Histopathological Examination
- Surgical Treatment types for Odontogenic tumor
c. Resection
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i. Removal of a tumor by incising through uninvolved tissues around the tumor, thus delivering the tumor without direct contact during instrumentation (also called as en bloc rection).
- Surgical Treatment types for Odontogenic tumor
ii. Marginal (Segmental) resection
- Resection of a tumor without disruption of the continuity of the bone.