Oral Pathology - previous year questions

DEVELOPMENTAL DISTURBANCES OF ORAL AND PARAORAL STRUCTURES

Long Answer Questions

  1. Enumerate developmental disturbances affecting the soft tissues of oral and para-oral structures. Write in detail on anomalies of tongue. Write in detail about amelogenesis imperfecta.
  2.  Enumerate the developmental disturbances in relation to structure of teeth. Describe the clinical features, radiographic and histopathologic features of regional odontodysplasia.
  3. Classify enamel hypoplasia. Describe about environmental enamel hypoplasia.

Short Answer Questions

  1. Gemination and fusion.
  2. Enumerate the developmental disturbances of the teeth with their structure. What are ghost teeth?
  3. Supernumerary teeth.
  4. Benign migratory glossitis.
  5. Median rhomboid glossitis.
  6. Dens invaginatus and dens evaginatus.
  7. Dens in Dente.
  8. Dentin dysplasia.
  9. Radiographic and histopathologic features of dentin dysplasia.
2M Questions

  1. Concrescence.
  2. Brandywine type Dentinogenesis Imperfecta.

Benign and malignant epithelial tumours of the oral cavity

Long Answer Questions

  1. Enlist white lesions of the oral cavity, write in detail the etiology, classification and histopathology of leukoplakia.
  2. Enumerate premalignant conditions. Discuss in detail etiopathogenesis and histological features of oral submucous fibrosis.
  3. Describe in detail the clinical features and histological features of oral squamous cell carcinoma. Add a note on the histological grading of OSCC.
Short Answer Questions

  1. Pathogenesis, clinical presentation of lichen planus.
  2. Etiopathogenesis and histopathology of oral lichen planus.
  3. Name the clinical subtypes of oral lichen planus.
  4. Describe the classical histological features of oral lichen planus.
  5. Oral epithelial dysplasia.
  6. Verrucous carcinoma.
  7. Histopathology of basal cell carcinoma.
  8. Define and enumerate the pre-malignant lesions and conditions. Discuss in detail the etiology, clinical features and histological features of leukoplakia.
  9. Grading and staging of oral squamous cell carcinoma.
  10. Histopathology of squamous cell carcinoma.

Tumours of Salivary glands

Long Answer Questions

  1. Enumerate malignant salivary gland tumors. Write in detail about Mucoepidermoid carcinoma.
  2. Classify the salivary gland neoplasms. Describe the clinical features, histopathology of pleomorphic adenoma. Add a note on its histogenesis.
  3. Classify salivary gland tumours. Describe the clinical and histological features of pleomorphic adenoma. Explain the role of ductal and myoepithelial cells in its histogenesis.
  4. Enumerate non-neoplastic enlargement of salivary gland and discuss in detail Sjogren's syndrome.
Short Answer Questions

  1. Ranula.
  2. Warthin's tumor.
  3. Histology of mucoepidermoid carcinoma.
  4. Write pathogenesis and histopathology of pleomorphic adenoma.
  5. Clinical features and histopathology of pleomorphic adenoma.
  6. Histopathology of adenoid cystic carcinoma.
  7. Adenoid cystic carcinoma.
  8. Sjogren's syndrome.

Non-epthelial tumours of the oral cavity

Short Answer Questions

  1. Clinical features and histopathology of fibroma.


cysts of oral region

Long Answer Questions

  1. Classify cyst of maxillofacial region and write in detail about clinical features, pathogenesis, radiographic features and histopathology of apical and  periodontal cyst.
  2. Write in detail the pathogenesis, clinical features, radiographic features and histopathology of ameloblastoma.
  3. Classify odontogenic cysts. Discuss pathogenesis, clinical features, radiographic features and histopathology of radicular cyst.
  4. Classify odontogenic cysts. Describe the clinical features, radiographic features and histopathology of radicular cyst.
  5. Define a cyst. Write in detail the clinical features, radiographic features and histological features of radicular cyst.
Short Answer Questions

  1. Radiographic and histopathological types of dentigerous cyst.
  2. Histopathology of dentigerous cyst.
  3. Pathogenesis of dentigerous cyst.
  4. Vicker's and Gorlin criteria for ameloblastoma.
  5. Radiological and histological features of Ameloblastoma.
  6. Orthokeratinised OKC.
  7. Histopathology of Odontogenic keratocyst.
  8. Radiographic features and histopathology of Odontogenic keratocyst.


Odontogenic tumours

Long Answer Questions

  1. Classify odontogenic tumor and write in detail about histologic variants of ameloblastoma.
  2. Histopathological features of calcifying epithelial odontogenic tumour.
  3. Adenomatoid odontogenic tumor.
  4. Odontome.
  5. Ameloblastic fibroma.

Bacterial infections of the oral cavity

Short Answer Questions

  1. Congenital Syphilis.
  2. Discuss oral manifestations of syphilis.
  3. Tertiary lesions of syphilis.
  4. Scarlet fever.
  5. Pyogenic granuloma.
  6. Clinical features and histopathological features of tuberculosis.
2M Questions
  1. Mycobacterium tuberculosis.


viral infections of the oral cavity

Long Answer Questions

  1. Classify viral lesions. Discuss about oral Herpes Simplex virus infection.

Short Answer Questions

  1. Clinical features and oral manifestation of Herpes zoster.
  2. Herpes labialis.
  3. Clinical features and pathogenesis of acute herpetic gingivostomatitis.

2M Questions

  1. Lipshutz bodies, Herpes zoster.

Mycotic infections of the oral cavity

Long Answer Questions

  1. Classify Oral Candidiasis. Describe in detail the clinical features, oral manifestations and laboratory diagnosis of Oral Candidiasis.
  2. Describe in detail the clinical features and diagnosis of Oral Candidiasis.

Short Answer Questions

  1. Oral thrush/Types of oral candidiasis /Acute pseudomembranous candidiasis.
  2. Clinical features and lab diagnosis of Oral Candidiasis.

2M Answer Questions

  1. Clinical features of mucormycosis.


Diseases of the periodontium

Short Answer Questions

  1. Describe Acute Necrotizing Ulcerative Gingivitis (ANUG).
  2. Trench mouth.
  3. Incubation zone of ANUG.
  4. Microorganisms in Acute Necrotizing Ulcerative Gingivitis.
  5. Radiographic appearance of juvenile periodontitis.

2M Answer Questions

  1. Causes of gingival hyperplasia.
  2. Clinical features of juvenile periodontitis.


Dental Caries

Long Answer Questions

  1. Classify the clinical forms of dental caries. Explain the acidogenic theory associated with the etiology of dental caries.
  2. Define dental caries. Enumerate zones of enamel and dental caries.

Short Answer Questions

  1. Proteolytic chelation theory, Miller's theory.
  2. Proteolytic theory of dental caries.
  3. Miller's acidogenic theory.
  4. Histopathology of Enamel caries.
  5. Histopathology of dentinal caries.
  6. Role of microorganisms in dental caries.
  7. Caries activity tests.

2M Answer Questions

  1. Enumerate zones of enamel caries.


Diseases of the pulp and periapical tissues

Short Answer Questions

  1. Pulp polyp.
  2. Describe the clinical and histologic features of acute pulpitis.
  3. Acute pulpitis.
  4. Histopathological features of periapical granuloma.
  5. Chronic hyperplastic pulpitis.

2M Questions

  1. Phoenix abscess.

Spread of oral infections

Short Answer Questions

  1. Chronic sclerosing osteomyelitis.
  2. Garre's chronic non-supparative sclerosing osteitis.
  3. Ludwig's angina.
  4. Clinical presentation of Ludwig's Angina.
  5. Mention the tissue spaces involved in Ludwig's angina.


Physical and chemical injuries of the oral cavity

Short Answer Questions

  1. Discuss osteoradionecrosis.
  2. Discuss sialolithiasis.
  3. What are the signs and symptoms of sialolithiasis? Explain the reason for its occurence in the submandibular duct.
  4. Radiation caries.
  5. Effect of radiation on teeth.

Regressive alterations of the teeth

Short Answer Questions

  1. Attrition and abrasion.
2M Questions

  1. Erosion of teeth.

Healing of oral wounds

Short Answer Questions

  1. Biopsy.
  2. Different types of biopsies.
  3. Exfoliative cytology.
  4. Factors affecting wound healing.


Oral aspects of metabolic diseases

Short Answer Questions

  1. Hyperparathyroidism.
  2. Scurvy.
  3. Oral manifestations of scurvy.

2M Questions

  1. Brown tumor.
  2. Malar rash.


Allergic and immunologic diseases of the oral cavity

2M Questions

  1. Antischkow cells

Diseases of bones and joints

Long Answer Questions

  1. Radiological, histopathological features of fibrous dysplasia.
  2. Describe in detail clinical features, radiographic features and histopathology of fibrous dysplasia.
  3. Classify fibroosseous lesions of the jaws. Describe the clinical features, radiographic features and histopathological features of fibrous dysplasia.

Short Answer Questions

  1. Solitary bone cyst vs Stafne bone cyst.
  2. Clinical features and histopathology of monostotic fibrous dysplasia.
  3. Enumerate the clinical variants of fibrous dysplasia. Describe the classical radiographic presentation of fibrous dysplasia.
  4. Histopathology of Paget's disease of bone.
  5. Clinical and histological features of fibrous dysplasia.
  6. Oral manifestations and pathology of cherubism.
  7. Oral manifestation of cleidocranial dysostosis.
  8. Clinical features and oral manifestations of cleidocranial dysplasia.

2M Questions

  1. 'Eyes turned towards heaven' appearance.
  2. Cumulus cloud.

Diseases of blood and blood-forming organs

Short Answer Questions

  1. Erythroblastosis.
  2. Oral manifestations of leukemia.
  3. Cyclic neutropenia.

Diseases of skin

LongAnswer Questions

  1. Enumerate mucocutaneous lesions. Discuss in detail about pemphigus.

Short Answer Questions

  1. Hereditary ectodermal dysplasia.
  2. Oral manifestations of pemphigus.
  3. Oral manifestations and histologic features of pemphigus vulgaris.
  4. Histological features of pemphigus vulgaris.
  5. Clinical presentation of pemphigus vulgaris.

2M Questions

  1. Auspitz sign.
  2. Tzanck test.


Diseases of the nerves and muscles

Short Answer Questions

  1. Discuss James Ramsay Hunt syndrome.
  2. Mention four clinical features of Bell's palsy.
  3. Trigeminal neuralgia.
  4. Clinical features of trigeminal neuralgia.

Forensic Odontology

2M Questions

  1. Bite marks.

Miscellaneous

Long Answer Questions

  1. Enumerate giant cell lesions. Discuss etiopathogenesis of aneurysmal bone cyst.
  2. Describe the clinical features, etiopathogenesis, and management of human immunodeficiency virus.

Short Answer Questions

  1. Bence Jones protein.
  2. Antoni A and B.
  3. Neurofibromatosis.
  4. Carcinoma in-situ.
  5. Schwannoma.
  6. Xerostomia, Etiology of xerostomia.
  7. Epithelial dysplasia.
  8. Osteogenesis imperfecta.
  9. Draw a labelled histologic diagram of plexiform ameloblastoma.
  10. Albright syndrome.
  11. Human papilloma virus.
  12. Mention four oral manifestations of HIV.
  13. Osteosarcoma.
  14. Cellulitis.
  15. Herpes labialis.
  16. Normal oral microbial flora.
  17. Draw a well labelled histological diagram of fibrosarcoma.
  18. Sickle cell anemia.
  19. Discuss the differences between Hodgkin's and Non Hodgkin's lymphoma.
  20. Osteopetrosis.
  21. Keratoacanthoma.
  22. Importance of palatal rugae in forensic dentistry.
  23. Mucous extravasation phenomenon.
  24. Amelogenesis imperfecta.
  25. Bruxism.
  26. Clinical and histopathogical features of papilloma.
  27. Discuss formation of giant cells.
  28. Discuss types of apthous ulcers.
  29. Discuss Noma.
  30. Lactobacillus count test.
  31. Garre's Osteomyelitis.
  32. Scleroderma.
  33. Histopathology of periapical cyst.
  34. Cooley's anemia.
  35. Macrodontia.
  36. Pulp polyp.
  37. Oral manifestations of deficiency of water soluble vitamins.
  38. Clinical and histopathological features of malignant melanoma.
  39. Clinical and histological features of pulp polyp.
  40. Embedded and impacted teeth.
  41. Types and histopathology of Nevi.
  42. Histopathology of Ewing's sarcoma.
  43. Radiation caries.
  44. Marfan's syndrome.
  45. Infectious mononucleosis.
  46. Angioneurotic edema.
  47. Define focal infection.
  48. Cyclic neutropenia.
  49. Neurilemmoma.
  50. Management of dry socket.
  51. Drug-induced gingival enlargement.
  52. Chancre.
  53. Effect of radiation on teeth.

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