Dental problems

Types

Dentoalveolar Injuries

• Tooth fracture
• Tooth subluxation
• Tooth avulsion
• Bleeding dental socket

Odontogenic Infections

• Dental caries (pulpitis)
• Ludwig's angina
• Periapical abcess
• Periodontal abscess
• Peritonsillar Abscess (PTA)
• Retropharyngeal abscess
• Trench Mouth (Acute Necrotizing Ulcerative Gingivitis)
• Vincent's angina - tonsillitis and pharyngitis
• Acute alveolar osteitis

Other

• Scurvy
• Gingival hyperplasia
  • Phenytoin
  • Cyclosporine
  • Nifedipine, Amlodipine
  • Leukemia

Maxillofacial Trauma

• Le Fort fractures
• Skull fracture (peds)
• Auricular hematoma
• Nasal fracture
  • Nasal septal hematoma
• Zygomatic arch fracture
• Zygomaticomaxillary (tripod) fracture
• Dental trauma
• Mandible fracture

Orbital trauma

Acute

• Ruptured Globe^
• Corneal Abrasion
• Ocular foreign body
• Conjunctival laceration
• Caustic Keratoconjunctivitis^^
• Subconjunctival hemorrhage
• Traumatic iritis
• Traumatic hyphema
• Retinal detachment
• Retrobulbar hemorrhage/hematoma
• Traumatic mydriasis
• Orbital fracture
  • Frontal sinus fracture
  • Naso-ethmoid fracture
  • Inferior orbial wall fracture
  • Medial orbital wall fracture

Subacute/Delayed

• Endophthalmitis^
• Corneal Ulcer^

Facial Swelling

• Superior vena cava syndrome
• Buccal space infections
• Dental problems
• Masticator space infections
• Parapharyngeal space infection
• Neoplasm
• Maxillofacial trauma
• Facial cellulitis
• Canine space infection
• Salivary gland diagnoses
  • Viral parotitis
  • Suppurative parotitis
  • Sialolithiasis
  • Sialoadenitis

See Also

• Dental numbers
• Maxillofacial trauma
• Diagnoses by Body Part (Main)

References

Authors

Ross Donaldson, Jordan Swartz, Mark Russell, Michael Holtz, Neil Young, Claire