Highlights
- A typical cyst is usually found in the tooth bearing parts of the jaw. The location of the cyst may sometimes indicate its nature.
- Cysts are almost universally radiolucent, and their epicenter is the center of a balloon, if you think of their growth mechanism as a balloon-like expansion.
- They're in most cases well demarcated unless they're infected; and if they have been in the jaw for a long period of tine, they often have a cortex.
- Be aware that by the time you see a patient with a cyst, the cause of that cyst might be gone. A rotten tooth which may have caused the cyst might have fallen already.
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Chiraz Guessaier, CDA Oasis Manager
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- View Episode 2: Weighing the Risks and Benefits of Taking Radiographs
- View Episode3: Dental Radiography: Tools of the Trade
- View Episode 4: Systematic Interpretation of Common Dental Radiographs
- View Episode 5: Seeing vs. Observing Pantomographs
- View Episode 6: Maximizing Your Diagnostic Yield
- View Episode 7: Not Caries, Not Perio Disease, Then What is it?
- View Episode 8: Using the Observation Checklist to Reach a Differential Diagnosis
- View Episode 9: Systematic Interpretation of Common Dental Radiographs: Sussing Out the Four Remaining Cases
- View Episode 10: Systematic Interpretation of Common Dental Radiographs: Infections of the Jaw