Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Female patient has a lesion in 46, 45 area, 45 is missing in radiograph it shows radiolucent but there was radiopaque from the coronal portion of the tooth



Female patient has a lesion in 46, 45 area, 45 is missing in radiograph it shows radiolucent but there was radiopaque from the coronal portion of the tooth: …the lesion extend buccal and lingual:

  • A. dentigerous cyst***
  • B. odontogenic keratocyst
  • C. ameloblastoma

Ameloblastoma:

no teeth in it, it is radiolucent, age: 30-50

odontogenic keratocyst:

it doesn’t include teeth, age: 10-20

dentigerous cyst:

young patients, radiolucent and radiopaque from the permanent tooth and the lesion for sure extends buccal and lingual.