A disorder present at birth
What is a congenital disorder?
Stages of Mitosis
What is prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase?
Means “white plaque”
What is Leukoplakia?
Occurs most commonly in the anterior mandible of patients older than 30 and is most common in women
What is Periapical Cemento-Osseous Dysplasia?
The two main categories of neuropathic pain
What is episodic and continuous?
A tooth germ has three parts
What are the enamel organ, dental papilla, and dental sac?
The physical, biochemical, and physiologic traits of an individual
What is phenotype?
This benign, pedunculated, tumor of the squamous epithelium is most often found on the soft palate or tongue
What is a Papilloma?
A condition of disordered cementum and bone development that usually occurs in black women older than 40 and is typically in more than one quadrant
What is Florid Cement-Osseous Dysplasia?
Characterized by an unexplained and usually continuous burning sensation of the oral soft tissues
What is Burning Mouth Syndrome?
The most common oral cyst
What is a radicular cyst (periapical cyst)?
Describes a type of hereditary pattern seen when more than one genetic factor is involved; when environmental factors participate in the cause of a condition
Multifactorial Inheritance
A broad group of disorders characterized by an overproduction of atypical white blood cells
What is Leukemia?
An asymptomatic fibro-osseous lesion that occurs in the posterior mandible and is isolated, well delineated radiolucent to radiopaque lesion
What is Focal Cemento-Osseous Dysplasia?
Acute, self-limiting loss of muscle control on one side of the face
What is Bell Palsy?
The most common missing deciduous tooth
What are the mandibular incisors?
An autosomal-dominant inheritance pattern with complete penetration. Characterized by white, corrugated, soft, folding buccal oral mucosa
White Sponge Nevus
A bengin salivary gland tumor that accounts for 90% of all salivary gland tumors?
What is Pleomorphic Adenoma?
Characterized by resorption, osteoblastic repair, and remineralization of involved bone
What is Paget Disease of bone?
The muscles of mastication
What is the Masseter, Temporalis, Medial Pterygoid, Lateral Pterygoid, Anterior Digastric, Mylohyoid?
Enamel hypoplasia resulting in congenital syphilis
What are Hutchinson Incisors and Mulberry Molars?
A progressive bilateral facial swelling that first appears when the patient is 1½ to 4 years of age and continues until about puberty and autosomal dominant
What is Cherubism?
A benign non-odontogenic, non-encapsulated infiltrating tumor that most often occurs in young people aged 10 and 29
What is Odontogenic Myxoma?
Consists of blood-filled spaces surrounded by multinucleated giant cells and fibrous connective tissue
What is Aneurysmal Bone Cyst?
Types of TMDs
What is myofascial pain (MPD), internal derangements, and arthritis?