The white line observed clinically on the buccal mucosa that extends from anterior to posterior along the occlusal plane is:
What is linea alba?
What are the first WBC's to arrive at a site of injury and the primary cell involved in acute inflammation.
What are neutrophils aka PMN's (polymorphonuclear leukocytes)
An autoimmune disease that affects the salivary and lacrimal glands.
What is Sjogren's Syndrome.
Congenital syphilis may cause a specific form of enamel hypoplasia called:
What is mulberry molars?
Gingival enlargement is caused by which of the following groups of drugs?
What is calcium channel blockers?
Clinical diagnosis can be used to determine the final or definitive diagnosis of all the following except:
Fordyce granules, Unerupted supernumerary teeth, Mandibular tori, Erythema migrans
What is Unerupted supernumerary teeth
What is the second type of WBC's to arrive at the site of injury.
What is macrophage? Circulating in the blood it is a _________?
It's also active in the immune response
The major cause of a mucocele is:
What is severed salivary gland? aka trauma
In primary syphilis, the oral lesion is called a(n):
What is chancre?
Which cyst is often described as a radiolucency that scallops around the roots of the teeth involved?
What is Traumatic/Simple bone cyst?
Empty void in bone fill of fluid and fills with bone after surgical procedure
Which one of the following is not considered a variant of normal?
Migratory Glossitis, White hairy tongue, Fissured tongue, Hairy leukoplakia
What is Hairy Leukoplakia?
Hyperemia is directly responsible for which two local clinical signs of inflammation?
What is erythema and heat.
Antibodies from a mother pass through the placenta to the developing fetus is what type of immunity?
What is natural passive immunity?
Candidiasis is the result of an overgrowth of a ________ fungus.
What is yeastlike?
Most common type: chronic atrophic ie denture stomatitis
Type that appears white, don't respond to antifungal therapy and can't be wiped off? chronic hyperplastic
What is an abnormal passage that leads from an abscess to the body surface?
What is fisula?
What is the percentage of erythoplakia diagnosed as a severe epithelial dysplasia or squamous cell carcinoma.
What is 90%?
Give the 4 localized clinical signs of inflammation.
What is redness and heat, swelling, pain and loss of the usual level of tissue function?
Fever, Leukocytosis, Lymphadenopathy and Elevated C- reactived protein-Systemic
Factors such as tuberculosis, histoplasmosis, and herpes simplex virus are sometimes associated with what type of pathology?
What is Erythema Multiform?
Acute osteomyelitis of the jaws may commonly result from extension of __________.
What is periapical abscess?
A stafne bone cyst contains ______ gland tissue.
What is salivary?
The radiographic appearance of _________ disease of bone displays irregular radiopacities known as the ___________ effect.
What is Paget and cotton-wool?
Elevate phosphatase Level
Internal tooth resorption that leads to the dental hard tissue being resorbed and thinner than normal and a pinkish color can be observed clinically in the area of the crown is referred to as ______________.
What is Pink tooth of Mummery?
Which one of the following ulcers may require a biopsy to make the diagnosis?
Minor aphthous ulcer, Major aphthous ulcer, herpetiform aphthous ulcer and Bechet syndrome
What is major aphthous ulcer?
The most common site(s) for oral lesions in tuberculosis is(are) the:
What is the tongue and palate?
The stage between the infection of an individual by a pathogen and the manifestation of the disease it causes is referred to as:
What is incubation period?