"Fill the blank" challenge!

👋Hey peeps!

Are you guys are up for a “Fill the blank” challenge? Here's the deal. 👨‍🏫I'll present to you a bunch of incomplete statements and hopefully you could fill them up with the best possible answer.

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📝Fill the blank!

1. __?__ rete ridges are classically seen in oral lichen planus and lichenoid reactions/lesions.

2. Histologically Unicystic Ameloblastoma is of three types…

   1. __?__

   2. __?__ and

   3. __?__

3. __?__ is a cystic lesion characterized histologically by the presence of an ameloblastomatous epithelial lining and ghost cells.

4. Among the three histologic patterns of Adenoid cystic carcinoma, __?__ type is know to have the best prognosis and __?__ type, the worst prognosis, in terms of distant metastasis and long-term survival.

5. Pyogenic Granuloma has also been referred to as __?__ due to the lobular arrangement of the vascular tissue histologically.

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💡Scroll down👇 for the answers if you get stuck!

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📚Here are some resources you could read from

• Revision Ninja - Oral Pathology and Medicine(Notes, Videos & MCQs)

• Neville BW, Damm DD, Allen CM, Chi A. Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology. South Asian ed. Elsevier; 2016.

• Rajendran R, Sivapathasundaram B. Shafer’s Textbook of Oral Pathology. 7th ed. Elsevier; 2012.

• Regezzi JA, Sciubba JJ, Jordan RCK. Oral Pathology: Clinical Pathologic Correlations. 5 th ed. Elsevier; 2007.

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Answers👇

1. Saw-tooth rete ridges are classically seen in oral lichen planus and lichenoid reactions/lesions.

2. Histologically Unicystic Ameloblastoma is of three types…

   1. Luminal

   2. Intra-Luminal and

   3. Mural

3. Calcifying odontogenic cyst is a cystic lesion characterized histologically by the presence of an ameloblastomatous epithelial lining and ghost cells.

4. Among the three histologic patterns of Adenoid cystic carcinoma, cribriform type is know to have the best prognosis and solid type, the worst prognosis, in terms of distant metastasis and long-term survival.

5. Pyogenic Granuloma has also been referred to as lobular capillary hemangioma due to the lobular arrangement of the vascular tissue histologically.

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