The results of this study suggest that CBCT is an effective tool for presurgical tridimensional assessment of the neurovascular structures, such as MF and its variations; On the other hand, PAN examinations were not able to show the AMF cases assessed on CBCT.
Based on the results, we can suggest that CBCT images are more suitable to differentiate tonsilloliths and SCO than panoramic images. The guideline was more important to diagnosis SCO than tonsilloliths. SCO was misclassified in 34% without the guideline.
Radiotherapy, alone or associated with surgery or chemotherapy, produces a
significant increase in cure rates for many malignancies of the head and neck region.
However, high doses of radiation in large areas, including the oral mucosa, may
result in several undesired reactions that manifest during or after the completion of
therapy. The multidisciplinary management is the best alternative to minimize or even
prevent such reactions, and the dentist has a fundamental role in this context. This
paper reviews the literature related to the main oral sequelae from head and neck
radiotherapy and establishes clinical oral management protocol for these irradiated
patients.
Taurodontism is significantly more prevalent in Brazilians with nonsyndromic CL/P than in persons without clefts; whereas the prevalence of root dilaceration no different from that in the control group. However, root dilacerations in anterior teeth were increased in groups 1 and 2 when compared to the control group.
Sialocele is a subcutaneous cavity containing saliva, caused by trauma or infection
in the parotid gland parenchyma, laceration of the parotid duct or ductal stenosis
with subsequent dilatation. It is characterized by an asymptomatic soft and mobile
swelling on the parotid region. Imaging studies are useful and help establishing the
diagnosis, such as sialography, ultrasonography, computed tomography and magnetic
resonance imaging. This paper describes a recurrent case of a parotid sialocele in a
young female patient. She presented a 6 cm x 5 cm swelling on the left parotid
region. The ultrasonographic scan of the area revealed a hypoechoic ovoid well
defined image suggesting a cyst. A sialography of the left parotid showed a cavitary
sialectasia in a panoramic and anteroposterior view. A conservative management was
adopted by percutaneous needle aspiration of the swelling, which was useful to
provide material for analysis and helped healing. Dentists should be aware of this
pathology and the importance in adopting a conservative treatment whenever it is
possible.
The advent of CBCT in Dentistry allowed a greater accuracy in the diagnosis of anatomical variations in the jaws, preventing injury to the neurovascular bundle and enabling an adequate surgical planning in the region.
An 11-year-old girl presented to our department to have a second opinion regarding a lesion involving her left mandible. She had previously undergone several radiographic exams including panoramic, helical, and cone-beam computed tomography. Radiographic examinations revealed a well-defined radiolucent region, which contained an irregular radiopaque mass of 3 cm in diameter, localized to the left angle of the mandible. Our presumptive diagnosis was complex odontoma. Excisional biopsy was performed, and microscopic features showed strands and islands of odontogenic epithelium showing peripheral palisading and loosely arranged central cells, identical to stellate reticulum, embedded in a myxoid cell-rich stroma resembling the dental papilla. Dentin and enamel were also presented. The diagnosis was ameloblastic fibro-odontoma, which is a rare mixed odontogenic tumor, derived from epithelial and ectomesenchymal elements that form the dental tissues.
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