Practice Oral Medicine & Pathology questions with answers and explanations.
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Periapical radiolucency is a radiographic dark area near a tooth apex that may reflect inflammatory periapical disease.
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Bitewing radiograph is an intraoral image useful for detecting interproximal caries and assessing crestal bone.
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Panoramic radiograph is a broad extraoral image displaying both jaws and surrounding structures.
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Oral submucous fibrosis is a chronic fibrosing oral disorder associated with reduced mouth opening and malignant risk.
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Temporomandibular disorder is a group of conditions affecting the jaw joint, masticatory muscles and related structures.
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Leukoplakia is a predominantly white oral plaque that cannot be characterised as another definable lesion after evaluation.
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Erythroplakia is a red oral patch with a high risk of severe dysplasia or malignancy after exclusion of other causes.
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Oral candidiasis is fungal infection of the oral mucosa caused mainly by Candida species.
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Lichen planus is a chronic immune-mediated mucocutaneous disorder that may produce reticular white oral lesions.
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Aphthous ulcer is a recurrent painful oral ulcer without a preceding vesicle.
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Mucocele is a mucus-filled swelling usually caused by trauma to a minor salivary gland duct.
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Lichen planus is a chronic immune-mediated mucocutaneous disorder that may produce reticular white oral lesions.
