Genetics
Condensed chromatin of the inactivated X chromosome, which is found at the periphery of the nucleus of cells in women.
What is a Barr body?
A tumor that is not malignant and favorable for treatment and recovery.
What is a benign tumor?
Term that describes disordered growth; abnormal development.
What is dysplasia?
A chronic disorder of carbohydrate metabolism characterized by abnormally high blood glucose levels.
What is Diabetes Mellitus?
Acute, self-limiting loss of muscle control on one side of the face. Facial paralysis usually begins to regress slowly and spontaneously within 1 to 2 weeks.
What is Bell Palsy?
The sequence of three bases in DNA that encodes an amino acid.
What is a codon?
Dysplasia involving the full thickness of the epithelium but without invasion into underlying connective tissue.
What is a carcinoma in situ?
This is a lesion which is composed of well-vascularized fibrous connective tissue containing many multinucleated giant cells; it is a non-neoplastic and intraosseous lesion of unclear pathogenesis.
What is a central giant cell granuloma?
Insufficient production of adrenal steroids. Clinical features include: bronzing of the skin and melanotic macules on oral mucosa.
What is Addison Disease?
Unexplained and usually continuous burning sensation, spontaneous onset, neuropathic etiology.
What is Burning Mouth Syndrome (BMS)?
This syndrome has an inheritance pattern of autosomal recessive, and clinical manifestations include dwarfism, hypoplastic nails and toenails, supernumerary digits on the ulnar side, fusion of the anterior portion of the maxillary gingiva to the upper lip from canine to canine, central incisors are generally lacking, and one centrally located abnormal tooth may be present.
What is Ellis-van Creveld syndrome?
This is the most common primary malignancy of the oral cavity, and, like other malignant tumors, can infiltrate adjacent tissues and metastasize to distant sites.
What is a squamous cell carcinoma?
This condition involves more than one bone, typically the skull, clavicles, and long bones in children younger than 10 years of age. The skin lesions that appear with this condition are light-brown macules called café au lait spots.
What is polyostotic fibrous dysplasia?
A group of inherited disorders of hemoglobin synthesis. Autosomal dominant inheritance patterns, yellow skin pallor, prominent cheekbone, fever, depression of the bridge of the nose.
What is Thalassemia (Mediterranean or Cooley Anemia)?
Pathologic condition involving the fifth cranial nerve, unilateral sharp shooting, knifelike, or electric shock-type pain.
What is Trigeminal Neuralgia?
The occurrence of this condition before the age of 15 is extremely rare.
What is torus mandibularis?
This is an odontogenic tumor composed of mature enamel, dentin, cementum, and pulpal tissue, and is the most common odontogenic tumor.
What is an odontoma?
A condition of disordered cementum and bone development, masses of irregular opacification made of dense sclerotic bone, cementum, or both.
What is Florid Cemento-Osseous Dysplasia?
An inherited blood disorder. Predominantly in black individuals. RBCs develop a sickle shape when there is decreased oxygen.
What is Sickle Cell Anemia?
An abnormal positional relationship of the disk relative to the mandibular condyle and the articular eminence, continuous pain exacerbated by jaw movement.
What is Internal Derangements?
The major components of this condition are hypodontia, hypotrichosis, and hypohidrosis.
What is Hypohidrotic Ectodermal Dysplasia?
This tumor may arise due to an HIV infection, patients who have received immunosuppressive drug therapy as a result of organ transplantation, as well as someone with a specific human herpesvirus.
What is a Kaposi sarcoma?
A chronic metabolic bone disease, resorption, osteoblastic repair, and remineralization of involved bone.
What is Paget Disease of Bone?
Malignant neoplasms of hematopoietic (blood-forming) stem cells, characterized by an excessive number of abnormal WBCs in circulating blood.
What is Leukemia?
A dysfunctional muscle hyperactivity with regional pain, tenderness in affected muscles, and variable amounts of reduced opening and complaints of malocclusion.
What is Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction (MPD)?