Major extracellular components of the tooth (3)
“DEC”
Major extracellular component of the tooth:
radially striated appearance caused by the presence of innumerable minute canals (the dentinal tubules) containing cytoplasmic processes from the odontoblasts
-Dentin
Major extracellular component of the tooth:
Consists of thin rods or prisms that on cross section are separated by concentric lines (lines of Retzius)
-Enamel
Major extracellular component of the tooth:
Very similar to bone in physicochemical characteristics and is indeed regarded as a special type of bone
-Cementum
Nests of cells in odontogenic epithelium (2)
- rests of Malassez
Nests of cells in odontogenic epithelium:
-located in alveolar mucosa
rests of Serres
Nests of cells in odontogenic epithelium
-resulting from breakup of the dental lamina
rests of Serres
Nests of cells in odontogenic epithelium
-embedded within the periodontium
-rests of Malassez
other name of Pulse Granulomas (4):
What disease entity?
Main microscopic finding:
-Acute suppurative inflammation and resorptive scalloping of margins of non-vital bone within a large portion of maxilla and mandible
-Acute and Subacute Osteomyelitis
component of SAPHO Syndrome (5):
True or False (re: SAPHO syndrome):
1 & 2. True
other name of Simple Bone Cyst (3):
What histologic feature is common on these jaw lesions?
-Large numbers of Osteoclast-like multinucleated giant cells
Most common lesion of the jaw that feature large numbers of Osteoclast-like multinucleated giant cells
-Central giant cell lesion (granuloma)
other name of Central giant cell granuloma
Reparative giant cell granuloma
other name of Ossifying fibroma (2):
- Cemento-ossifying fibroma
Types of Osseous dysplasia (3)
Type of Osseous dysplasia:
-Found in middle-aged black women
-Periapical
Type of Osseous dysplasia:
-Apex of a single tooth, usually a mandibular incisor
-Periapical
Type of Osseous dysplasia:
-Multiple teeth in the posterior mandible
-Focal
Type of Osseous dysplasia:
-Multiple jaw quadrants
-Florid
Type of Osseous dysplasia:
-Symptomatic
-Florid
Which entity?
Microscopically, the most typical feature:
-Presence of curvilinear trabecular (“ginger root” pattern) or irregularly-shaped cementum-like masses set within a vascular stroma
Osseous dysplasia