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High-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18 are responsible for the majority of cervical cancers and have the highest malignant potential among the options listed.

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Gingival enlargement, or overgrowth, is a known side effect associated with several classes of medications: Anticonvulsants: Drugs like phenytoin, used to treat epilepsy, commonly cause gingival enlargement. Immunosuppressants: Cyclosporine, often used in organ transplant patients (e.g., renal transplantation), is strongly associated with gingival overgrowth. Calcium Channel Blockers: Certain medications for hypertension, such as nifedipine, can induce gingival enlargement. Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) typically do not take medications that cause this specific side effect. Therefore, a patient with COPD is the exception

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A pantograph is a record of the patient’s jaw movements.

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Orchitis (inflammation of the testicles) is the most common complication of mumps in post-pubertal males.

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The mandibular second molar typically has 4 cusps and a cross-shaped (+) groove pattern, unlike the 5 cusps and Y-pattern of the first molar.

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Fabrication of ceramics and metals like titanium that are difficult to cast, is done by CAD-CAM process and copy milling.

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The parakeratinised type of odontogenic keratocyst (OKC) is significantly more common than the orthokeratinised type, making up the vast majority of cases. 

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Hisatugu Numata (H. Numata) of Japan was the first to propose and experiment with the concept of rotational panoramic radiography in 1933, using a curved film placed lingual to the teeth. However, it was Paatero who, in the late 1940s and 1950s, developed the method of pantomography and then orthopantomography into a practical and commercially viable machine

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Inferior alveolar nerve block is absolutely contraindicated in patients suffering from haemophilia.