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Cystic and Non-cystic Lesions at the Peri-apex of the Teeth

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Endodontic Diagnosis, Pathology, and Treatment Planning

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The most common peri-radicular lesions of the jaws are inflammatory lesions caused by infection of the dental pulp. Peri-apical granuloma, chronic peri-apical abscess, peri-apical pocket cysts, radicular cysts, extra-radicular infections, foreign body reactions and fibrous scar tissue typically present as unilocular peri-apical radiolucencies of varying size and degrees of circumscription. The need to differentiate can only be based on a careful history taking, clinical signs and symptoms and equivocal pulpal sensibility testing followed by commencement of nonsurgical root canal treatment to tip the balance in favour of healing.

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Patel, B. (2015). Cystic and Non-cystic Lesions at the Peri-apex of the Teeth. In: Endodontic Diagnosis, Pathology, and Treatment Planning. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15591-3_4

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