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Question 1

risk factor for apthous ulcer?

Answer 1

🔷MEMORY CARD FOR APTHOUS ULCER🔷

RISK FACTORS FOR APTHOUS ULCER

🔸STRESS
🔸TRAUMA
🔸NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY
🔸GIT DISEASES (Coeliac/ ulcerative colitis)
🔸ENDOCRINE periods pregnancy
🔸 SLS - detergent in toothpaste
🔸 SMOKING CESSATION
🔸 FOOD ALLERGIES
🔸 IMMUNO DEFICIENCY
🔸 History of previous ulcer

Question 2

CRANIAL ARTERITIS (TEMPORAL ARTERITIS;
GIANT-CELL ARTERITIS

Answer 2

giant cells appear in the arteries and cause a deranged internal elastic lamina.
*elderly pt
*headache is intense, deep and aching,
throbbing in nature and persistent.
It is frequently made worse when the patient lies flat in bed and it may be exacerbated or reduced bydigital pressure on the artery involve
*prednisalone

Question 3

eagle syndrome

Answer 3

a rare disorder due to an elongated styloid process (stylalgia), may cause pain on chewing, swallowing or turning the head

Question 4

denture stomatitis

Answer 4

Denture soak solution
containing benzoic acid is taken up into the
acrylic resin and can completely eradicate
C.albicans from the denture surface. Chlorhexidine gluconate can also eliminate C.albicans on the denture surface and a mouthwash can reduce the palatal inflammation

Question 5

BRIEF MANAGEMENT OF APTHOUS ULCER

Answer 5

🔸Stress Management
🔸Avoid Spicy food - if mentioned by patient
🔸 GP referral - to rule out any nutritional deficiency
🔸Warm saline rinses
🔸 Good Oral Hygiene
🔸Benzydamine 1% gel topically, 2-3 hourly as necessary.
🔸Follow up in 14 days
🔸If doesn’t heal - Refer to Specialist as we consider it as SUSPICIOUS ULCER

Question 6

angular chelitis

Answer 6

Oral candidiasis
🔸Deep skin Folds around the corners of the mouth
🔸Dec VD
🔸Iron, folate , b12 def
🔸Crohn’s disease
🔸Granulomatous ds
🔸Atopic dermatitis

✅Management - address the predisposing factors
Topical anti fungal cream

Answer 7

Telangiectasias — dilated capillaries — may
be seen after irradiation and in disorders
such as hereditary haemorrhagic telangiec
tasia and systemic sclerosis

Question 8

ERYTHROPLAKIA

Answer 8

*NOT CHARACTERISED ANY LESION
*FIERY RED LESION
*MIDDLE AGED MEN
*FLOOR OF MOUTH ,BUCCALMUCOSA,SOFTPALATE
*79-90% MALIGNANCY TRANSFORMATION RATE
*SMOOTH,VELVETY,NODULAR,PLAQUE WITH CLEAR MARGIN
*PERIODIC REVIEW

Question 9

BLACK HAIRY TONGUE

Answer 9

*HYPERKERATINISED FILLIFORM PAPILLA STAINED BY EPITHELIAL CELL,EXOGENOUS,CHROMOGENIC
*POOOR ORAL HYGIENE
*ANY COURSE OF AB
*LIMITED ORAL INTAKE PEG
*CHX MOUTH WASH
*TONGUE CLEANING3
*BICARBONATE MOUTH WASH