ORAL PATHOLOGY CHAPTER 1 EXAM
REVIEW QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
The identification of which one of the following is not determined by clinical diagnosis?
a. fordyce granules
b. tori
c. compound odontoma
d. retrocuspid papilla - Answer-c. compound odontoma
Another term for geographic tongue is
a. allergic tongue
b. median rhomboid glossitis
c. migratory glossitis
d. white hairy tongue - Answer-c. migratory glossitis
The cause of supernumerary teeth is most likely
a. genetic
b. traumatic
c. cyst
d. systemic - Answer-a. genetic
Historical diagnosis can include the patient's
a. age and sex
b. family history
c. medical history
d. all of the above - Answer-d. all of the above
Which condition is most often seen on the buccal mucosa?
a. melanin pigmentation
b. fordyce granules
c. nicotine stomatitis
d. angular cheilitis - Answer-b. fordyce granules
Which one of the following is not considered a variant of normal?
a. migratory glossitis
b. white hairy tongue
c. fissured tongue
d hairy leukoplakia - Answer-d. hairy leukoplakia
Which cyst is often described as a radiolucency that scallops around the roots of the
teeth involved?
a. stafne bone
, b. traumatic bone
c. radicular
d. residual - Answer-b. traumatic bone
What percentage of erythroplakias is diagnosed as severe epithelial dysplasia or
squamous cell carcinoma?
a. 10
n. 25
c. 60
d. 90 - Answer-d. 90
Which of the following best describes the number of types of HIV? More than
a. 35
b. 75
c. 100
d. 150 - Answer-d. 150
Which one of the following terms best describes leukoplakia?
a. clinical
b. histologic
c. historical
d. microscopic - Answer-a. clinical
After arriving at a differential diagnosis, information from which one of the following
categories will best establish a final or definitive diagnosis?
a. Clinical
b. Historical
c. Microscopic
d. Radiographic - Answer-c. Microscopic
The descriptive term that would best be used for a freckle is a
a. bulla
b. vesicle
c. lobule
d. macule - Answer-d. macule
Which one of the following terms describes the base of a lesion that is stalklike?
a. sessile
b. lobule
c. pedunculated
d. macule - Answer-c. pedunctulated
Clinical diagnosis can be used to determine the final or definitive diagnosis of all of the
following except
a. fordyce granules
b. unerupted supernumerary teeth
c. mandibular tori
REVIEW QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
The identification of which one of the following is not determined by clinical diagnosis?
a. fordyce granules
b. tori
c. compound odontoma
d. retrocuspid papilla - Answer-c. compound odontoma
Another term for geographic tongue is
a. allergic tongue
b. median rhomboid glossitis
c. migratory glossitis
d. white hairy tongue - Answer-c. migratory glossitis
The cause of supernumerary teeth is most likely
a. genetic
b. traumatic
c. cyst
d. systemic - Answer-a. genetic
Historical diagnosis can include the patient's
a. age and sex
b. family history
c. medical history
d. all of the above - Answer-d. all of the above
Which condition is most often seen on the buccal mucosa?
a. melanin pigmentation
b. fordyce granules
c. nicotine stomatitis
d. angular cheilitis - Answer-b. fordyce granules
Which one of the following is not considered a variant of normal?
a. migratory glossitis
b. white hairy tongue
c. fissured tongue
d hairy leukoplakia - Answer-d. hairy leukoplakia
Which cyst is often described as a radiolucency that scallops around the roots of the
teeth involved?
a. stafne bone
, b. traumatic bone
c. radicular
d. residual - Answer-b. traumatic bone
What percentage of erythroplakias is diagnosed as severe epithelial dysplasia or
squamous cell carcinoma?
a. 10
n. 25
c. 60
d. 90 - Answer-d. 90
Which of the following best describes the number of types of HIV? More than
a. 35
b. 75
c. 100
d. 150 - Answer-d. 150
Which one of the following terms best describes leukoplakia?
a. clinical
b. histologic
c. historical
d. microscopic - Answer-a. clinical
After arriving at a differential diagnosis, information from which one of the following
categories will best establish a final or definitive diagnosis?
a. Clinical
b. Historical
c. Microscopic
d. Radiographic - Answer-c. Microscopic
The descriptive term that would best be used for a freckle is a
a. bulla
b. vesicle
c. lobule
d. macule - Answer-d. macule
Which one of the following terms describes the base of a lesion that is stalklike?
a. sessile
b. lobule
c. pedunculated
d. macule - Answer-c. pedunctulated
Clinical diagnosis can be used to determine the final or definitive diagnosis of all of the
following except
a. fordyce granules
b. unerupted supernumerary teeth
c. mandibular tori
