TOPIC: BASICS OF DENTAL ANATOMY 📌 KEY POINTS: A Tooth is defined as “One of the hard tissues that are positioned on the jaws and help in holding and mastication of food, also as weapons of offense and defense in lower animals.” 💠 Human dentitions are divided into many classes of teeth based on the […]
BASIC INTRODUCTION OF ORAL SURGERY 📌 IMPORTANT QUESTION & ANSWER 1.What is oral and maxillofacial surgery? Oral and maxillofacial surgery is a branch in dentistry that deals with the art of diagnosis and treatment of various diseases, pathological defects involving the Oro facial region. 2. Define Exodontia or tooth extraction. According to Geoffrey L Howe, […]
Introduction Of Gingiva In Periodontology 📌 POINTS TO PONDER 🔹The pH of the gingiva ranges from 6.5 to 8.5. 🔹Junctional epithelium and gingival fibers together form a functional unit called as dentogingival unit. 🔹Junctional epithelium is the only attachment in the body between soft tissue and a calcified tissue which is exposed to the external […]
TOPIC: ANATOMICAL LANDMARKS OF MAXILLARY ARCH 📌 LIMITING STRUCTURES OR PERIPHERAL STRUCTURES: Labial frenum Labial vestibule Buccal frenum Buccal vestibule Hamular notch Posterior palatal seal Fovea palatinae 📌 SUPPORTING STRUCTURES ✳️Primary stress-bearing area Hard palate Posterior lateral slopes of the residual alveolar ridge ✳️Secondary stress-bearing area Rugae ✳️Relief area Incisive papilla Midpalatine raphe
QUICK EXAM CRACKERS IMPORTANT COMMON TUMOURS Most common malignancy in females in the world – Breast cancer followed by lung cancer Most common malignancy in females in India – Carcinoma of uterine followed by breast cancer Most common malignancy in males – Lung cancer followed by […]
TOPIC: HEALTH EDUCATION 📌 BRIEF NOTES: 🔹Health education is a process that informs, motivates, and helps people adopt and maintain healthy practices and lifestyles. It advocates environmental changes as needed to facilitate this goal and conducts professional training and research to the same end.(NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PREVENTIVE MEDICINE IN USA) 📍DEFINITION OF HEALTH: Health is […]
IMPORTANT ORAL MANIFESTATIONS OF METABOLIC DISORDERS 🔹DIABETES MELLITUS: Severe periodontitis with loosening of teeth, gingivitis and painful gingival, burning mouth syndrome, delayed wound healing, mucosal ulceration, acetone breath, increased risk of infection, bilateral nontender enlargement of parotids (diabetic sialadenitis), xerostomia, gingival hyperplasia, candidiasis and atrophy of tongue papillae. 🔹AMYLOIDOSIS: Macroglossia with smooth, brawny and in […]
QUICK EXAM CRACKERS RADIOGRAPHIC CHANGES IN VARIOUS TOOTH ABNORMALITIES 🔺GEMINATION (Incomplete): Two crowns with one root 🔺DILACERATION: Sharp bend in the tooth (mostly root)
SHORT NOTES FOR ORTHODONTICS 1. The term orthodontics is coined by Le Foulon 2. The pioneer in the treatment of cleft palate and related problems, Norman Kingsley Click the link to read about Growth Spurt
TYPICAL RADIOLOGICAL APPEARANCE CONTD. 🔺Brush in winter appearance: Normal sialographic appearance of submandibular gland 🔺Savage like appearance: Sialographic appearance of Sialographic 🔺Snow storm appearance: Sialographic appearance of sjogren’s syndrome 🔺Sialectasis: Sialographic appearance of Sialodenitis 🔺Ball in hand appearance: Sialographic appearance of intrinsic benign tumors 🔺Balloon like appearance: Follicular cyst
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