ABSTRACT
The pyogenic granuloma frequently appears between the ages of eleven and forty years. It is a benign soft tissue lesion of inflammatory origin, which may be misdiagnosed as a neoplastic tumor due to its rapid development. Definitive diagnosis can only be made by histopathologic examination. Treatment is by conservative local excision. The present manuscript reports on the diagnosis and treatment of such a lesion, which caused significant maxillary bone loss in a twelve-year-old child.
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Bone Resorption/etiology , Gingival Diseases/complications , Granuloma, Pyogenic/complications , Maxillary Diseases/etiology , Abscess/etiology , Child , Humans , Male , Molar , Root Resorption/etiology , Tooth, DeciduousABSTRACT
A retrospective radiographic search was made for nutrient canals situated immediately inferior to the incisal tip of the unerupted permanent maxillary cuspid. In this study, the structure was observed radiographically in 35.4% of the children between the ages of 6 and 10 years, with an apparently greater incidence among girls.
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Cuspid , Haversian System/diagnostic imaging , Maxilla/diagnostic imaging , Tooth Eruption , Child , Cuspid/diagnostic imaging , Female , Humans , Male , Radiography , Retrospective Studies , Sex FactorsABSTRACT
In this case the permanent successor was so radiographically indistinct due to the inflammatory process that this three-year-old Arab boy might have been classified as having congenital absence of the mandibular left first premolar, if the mass had not been sent for histological section. The clinical implications are identical.
