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A radiographic survey of periapical jawbone lesions. 1986

Y Marmary, and G Kutiner

A radiographic survey of the jawbone adjacent to the teeth revealed a high incidence of bone pathosis in 889 randomly chosen patients. Jaw lesions, nearly all inflammatory, were present in every second person. Bone-destructive inflammatory processes (rarefying osteitis) were the most frequently encountered lesions, occurring in both the maxilla and the mandible. Bone-appositioning inflammatory processes (condensing osteitis), on the other hand, appeared mostly in the mandible, very often involving the first molar, thus indicating the differing biologic behavior of the two jawbones. Other bony manifestations in the mandible, such as enostosis and periapical cemental dysplasia, although relatively rare, also formed part of the picture. In light of the absence of related symptoms, the clinical significance of these widely prevalent periapical lesions has to be reconsidered.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008336	Mandibular Diseases	Diseases involving the MANDIBLE.	Disease, Mandibular,Diseases, Mandibular,Mandibular Disease
D008439	Maxillary Diseases	Diseases involving the MAXILLA.	Disease, Maxillary,Diseases, Maxillary,Maxillary Disease
D010000	Osteitis	Inflammation of the bone.	Bone Inflammation,Inflammation, Bone
D010482	Periapical Abscess	Acute or chronic inflammation of tissues surrounding the apical portion of a tooth, associated with the collection of pus, resulting from infection following pulp infection through a carious lesion or as a result of an injury causing pulp necrosis. (Dorland, 27th ed)	Abscess, Periapical,Alveolar Abscess, Apical,Dentoalveolar Abscess, Apical,Periapical Periodontitis, Suppurative,Periodontitis, Apical, Suppurative,Abscess, Apical Alveolar,Abscess, Apical Dentoalveolar,Abscesses, Apical Alveolar,Abscesses, Apical Dentoalveolar,Abscesses, Periapical,Alveolar Abscesses, Apical,Apical Alveolar Abscess,Apical Alveolar Abscesses,Apical Dentoalveolar Abscess,Apical Dentoalveolar Abscesses,Dentoalveolar Abscesses, Apical,Periapical Abscesses,Periapical Periodontitides, Suppurative,Periodontitides, Suppurative Periapical,Periodontitis, Suppurative Periapical,Suppurative Periapical Periodontitides,Suppurative Periapical Periodontitis
D011842	Radicular Cyst	Slow-growing fluid-filled epithelial sac at the apex of a tooth with a nonvital pulp or defective root canal filling.	Periapical Cyst,Periodontal Cyst, Apical,Apical Periodontal Cyst,Apical Periodontal Cysts,Cyst, Apical Periodontal,Cyst, Periapical,Cyst, Radicular,Cysts, Apical Periodontal,Cysts, Periapical,Cysts, Radicular,Periapical Cysts,Periodontal Cysts, Apical,Radicular Cysts
D011859	Radiography	Examination of any part of the body for diagnostic purposes by means of X-RAYS or GAMMA RAYS, recording the image on a sensitized surface (such as photographic film).	Radiology, Diagnostic X-Ray,Roentgenography,X-Ray, Diagnostic,Diagnostic X-Ray,Diagnostic X-Ray Radiology,X-Ray Radiology, Diagnostic,Diagnostic X Ray,Diagnostic X Ray Radiology,Diagnostic X-Rays,Radiology, Diagnostic X Ray,X Ray Radiology, Diagnostic,X Ray, Diagnostic,X-Rays, Diagnostic
D011897	Random Allocation	A process involving chance used in therapeutic trials or other research endeavor for allocating experimental subjects, human or animal, between treatment and control groups, or among treatment groups. It may also apply to experiments on inanimate objects.	Randomization,Allocation, Random
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000539	Alveolar Process	The thickest and spongiest part of the maxilla and mandible hollowed out into deep cavities for the teeth.	Alveolar Ridge,Alveolar Processes,Process, Alveolar,Processes, Alveolar,Ridge, Alveolar
D014076	Tooth Diseases	Diseases involving the TEETH.	Disease, Tooth,Diseases, Tooth,Tooth Disease