Oral Pathology Final Question and Answer
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• Hairy Tongue -✓✓ Elongated filiform papilla, may result from antibiotic,
corticosteroid, radiation
• Fissured Tongue -✓✓ Variant of normal, fissures/grooves on dorsal surface of
tongue; can become irritated if food collects here
• Lingual Variscosities -✓✓ Dilated superficial veins, ventral surface of tongue;
Red-purple enlarged vessels
• Median Rhomboid Glossitis -✓✓ Devoid of filiform papilla; may be assoc. with
candida albicans; red area on midline of tongue
• Macroglossia -✓✓ Enlarged tongue; associated with acromegaly
• Down Syndrome -✓✓ Trisomy 21, Fissured Tongue, Macroglossia, mouth
breathing, hypodontia, taurodontism, gingival & perio dz
• Nicotine Stomatitis -✓✓ White lesion on hard palate of heavy smokers; Initial
response= redness due to heat; With time = Keratinization. The raised red dots
represent duct openings of minor salivary glands. Coarse, white, wrinkled
appearance
• Pseudomembranous, Erythematous, Chronic Hypertrophic Candidiasis, Angular
Cheilitis, Median Rhomboid Glossitis -✓✓ List 5 types of Candida albicans
, • Pseudomembranous -✓✓ white plaques that wipe off, "thrush"
• Erythematous -✓✓ red mucosa; "Acute Atrophic Candidiasis"
• Chronic Atrophic Candidiasis -✓✓ "denture stomatitis"
• Angular Cheilitis -✓✓ Fissuring at labial commissures; may also be due to
Riboflavin (Vit B2) deficiency
• Median Rhomboid Glossitis -✓✓ erythematous area at midline of tongue
• Leukoedema -✓✓ Gray to white film; stretching the mucosa makes the
opalescence less noticeable
• Linea Alba -✓✓ "white line", hyperkeratotic, common with bruxism or clenching
habit
• Leukoplakia -✓✓ white patch or plaque or oral mucosa that cannot be wiped off;
related to the use of tobacco
• Hairy Leukoplakia -✓✓ Etiologic agent appears to be Epstein Barr Virus in
association with HIV, White patch seen on lateral border of tongue, *the first oral
manifestation of HIV
• Physiologic Pigmentation -✓✓ racial or normal pigmentation; variable in dark
skinned individuals
[2026] | UPDATED ACTUAL Exam | 100%
Verified Answers
• Hairy Tongue -✓✓ Elongated filiform papilla, may result from antibiotic,
corticosteroid, radiation
• Fissured Tongue -✓✓ Variant of normal, fissures/grooves on dorsal surface of
tongue; can become irritated if food collects here
• Lingual Variscosities -✓✓ Dilated superficial veins, ventral surface of tongue;
Red-purple enlarged vessels
• Median Rhomboid Glossitis -✓✓ Devoid of filiform papilla; may be assoc. with
candida albicans; red area on midline of tongue
• Macroglossia -✓✓ Enlarged tongue; associated with acromegaly
• Down Syndrome -✓✓ Trisomy 21, Fissured Tongue, Macroglossia, mouth
breathing, hypodontia, taurodontism, gingival & perio dz
• Nicotine Stomatitis -✓✓ White lesion on hard palate of heavy smokers; Initial
response= redness due to heat; With time = Keratinization. The raised red dots
represent duct openings of minor salivary glands. Coarse, white, wrinkled
appearance
• Pseudomembranous, Erythematous, Chronic Hypertrophic Candidiasis, Angular
Cheilitis, Median Rhomboid Glossitis -✓✓ List 5 types of Candida albicans
, • Pseudomembranous -✓✓ white plaques that wipe off, "thrush"
• Erythematous -✓✓ red mucosa; "Acute Atrophic Candidiasis"
• Chronic Atrophic Candidiasis -✓✓ "denture stomatitis"
• Angular Cheilitis -✓✓ Fissuring at labial commissures; may also be due to
Riboflavin (Vit B2) deficiency
• Median Rhomboid Glossitis -✓✓ erythematous area at midline of tongue
• Leukoedema -✓✓ Gray to white film; stretching the mucosa makes the
opalescence less noticeable
• Linea Alba -✓✓ "white line", hyperkeratotic, common with bruxism or clenching
habit
• Leukoplakia -✓✓ white patch or plaque or oral mucosa that cannot be wiped off;
related to the use of tobacco
• Hairy Leukoplakia -✓✓ Etiologic agent appears to be Epstein Barr Virus in
association with HIV, White patch seen on lateral border of tongue, *the first oral
manifestation of HIV
• Physiologic Pigmentation -✓✓ racial or normal pigmentation; variable in dark
skinned individuals
