What is Normal

Question 1

What is a feature that can help identify whether something is normal or pathology?

Answer 1

Normal features are usually SYMMETRICAL.

Question 2

What can be done to investigate whether something is a duct or abnormal?

Answer 2

• Dry the duct with gauze.
• Massage the respective gland and see if saliva comes out.

Question 3

What is another word for folliate papillae?

Answer 3

Lingual tonsil.

Question 4

What are fordyce spots? 2 places they commonly appear?

Answer 4

• Enalarged, slightly raised SEBACEOUS GLANDS that appear on the hairless areas of your skin.
• Vermillion border, inside the cheeks.

Question 5

What may be seen in the buccal mucosa of someone who clenches?

Answer 5

Linea alba.

Question 6

What is another term for geographic tongue?

Answer 6

Erythema migrans

Question 7

What is the physiological effect of geographic tongue?

Answer 7

Can make tongue more sensitive to salty, acidic food.

Question 8

What causes black hairy tongue?

Answer 8

• Hairy: hyperplastic FILIFORM papillae.
• Staining: tea, coffee, smoking, chlorhexidine mouthwash.

Question 9

2 remedies that can help fix black hairy tongue?

Answer 9

1. Fresh pineapple (break down the mucopolysaccharides as they will break down the coating).
2. Vitamin C tablets sucking (unless patient Is dentate as that would drop the pH too much).

Question 10

How can you confirm if something is as amalgam tattoo?

Answer 10

Take an x-ray and it will show up.

Question 11

How can you check if something is a vascular malformation?

Answer 11

Identify the feeding vessel and press on it - it should BLANCH.

Question 12

How can a vascular malformation be fixed?

Answer 12

Use CRYOTHERAPY as it freezes and thus necroses the cells. Done for AESTHETICS.