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For a bacterium to be seriously considered in the aetiology of dental caries, it must 
1. Exist regularly in the dental plaque
2. Produce extracellular amylopectins
3. Be lethal for gnotobiotic animals
4. Produce intracellular dextrans

Oral Pathology Answer: 1

The most likely cause of necrotizing sialometaplasia is J
1. autoimmune
2. viral
3. local ischemia
4. chronic irritation
Oral Pathology Answer: 3

An apical lesion that develops as an acute exacerbation of a chronic or suppurative apical periodontitis is called
1) Condensing osteitis
2) Chronic apical abscess
3) Apical cyst
4) Phoenix abscess
Oral Pathology Answer: 4

Which of the following conditions is least likely to show oral manifestations
1) Psoriasis
2) Pemphigoid
3) Periadenitis
4) Behcet"s syndrome
Oral Pathology Answer: 1

Characteristic dental findings of cleidocranial dysostosis include
1) Increased caries susceptibility
2) Enamel hypoplasia and lack of enamel formation
3) Juvenile periodontitis and subsequent premature loss of teeth
4) All of the above
Oral Pathology Answer: 4

Teeth that erupt with in 30 days of birth are called
1) Natal teeth
2) Neonatal teeth
3) Primary teeth
4) Prenatal teeth
Oral Pathology Answer: 2

Severe pain which arises after injury to or sectioning of a peripheral sensory nerve is called as 
 1. Temporal arteritis
 2. Neuralgia
 3. Neuritis
 4. Causalgia
Oral Pathology Answer: 3

A 3-year-old patient reports of painless progressive bilateral facial swellings. The tentative diagnosis is
1) Cherubism
2) Monostotic fibrous dysplasia
3) Polyostotic fibrous dysplasia
4) Central giant cell granuloma
Oral Pathology Answer: 1

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