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Intraoral Inspection
Unit 3
37 cards·by mwoehler
Lips and buccal mucosa
color (fibrotic), size, texture, lesions - look at vestibule, mucobuccal folds, frena,
stenson's duct, buccal mucosa
Tongue
great resource of your overall health
Tongue inspection
wet gauze, look at vestibule, lateral boarders, base of tongue, deviations
floor of mouth
ventral of tongue, duct openings, frena, limitation (ankyloglossia)
Hard/soft palate
torus, heights, rugae
torus
single bony protusion of the palate
tori/bilateral tori
on the mandibular floor of the mouth
tonsillar region
Uvula, palatine arches
amalgam tattoos
identify by tooth number, permanent amalgam stain
question
boney protrusion on alveolar ridge
piercings
identify by location
lesinons/ulcers
aphthous, herpectic
irritations
burns, floss cuts, toothbrush trauma, red swollen tonsils say 'ahh'
fissures
deep grooves on tongue
geographic tongue
harmless condition, resembles a road map
glossitis
vitamin B deficiency, red and inflammed
hair tongue
color of foods ate/drank, black/white - smoker
hematomas
bruise in mouth
instrinsic stain
cannot remove when polishing - tetracycline
hypoplasias
pitting of the enamel
peglaterals
document
fused teeth
document
amelogenesis imperfecta
look up what this means
cervical abrasion
look up what this means
gingiva - color
red, blue, purple, pink
gingiva - size
enlarged, flat, blunted, snug (wide 3mm, narrow 2mm)
ginigva - shape
edematous, pointed blunt, flat, rolled
gingiva - texture
strippled, firm, smooth, shiny, fibrotic, spongy
gingiva - bleeding on probing
BOP
gingiva
local/generalized - tooth numbers
occlusion
classification - angle's key I, II, III
mesiognatic
normal facial profile
retrognathic
maxillary is forward - facial profile
prognathic
mandible is forward - facial profile
deviations
overbite, over-jet, midline shift, cross-bite, end-to-end, open bite
attrition
grinding
habits
chewing on pens, ice, cheek biting