periapical cemento-osseous dysplasia

1. Statement of the Illness/Disease:
Periapical Cemento-osseous Dysplasia is a condition of the jaw and teeth. This condition has many names such like:Cemento-osseous dysplasia, cementoma, and Periapical osteofibrosis. This condition can fall into three categories: periapical cemental dysplasia (common in blacks), focal cemento-osseous dysplasia (caucasians), and florid cemento-osseous dysplasia (blacks). Periapical Cemento-osseous dysplasia has mostly appeared in African-American females from older and including 20 years of age, and hardly ever in males.

2. Normal Function of the organ affected:
This disease is very tricky many times specialist and dentist misinterpret what the tooth or jaw is truly going thru. Many of the times the situation “fixed” by undergoing a root canal.What really happens is that the tooth root is separated by a “noncalcified layer” making the tooth or teeth in the radiographs seem as if the tooth were to be dead in the inside and perfectly fine on the outside (like a root canal).

3. Definition of Disease:
Periapical Cemento-osseous Dysplasia is a condition of the jaw and teeth. This condition has many names such like:Cemento-osseous dysplasia, cementoma, and Periapical osteofibrosis.

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6.. References:
-http://www.pathology.vcu.edu/
-http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/
-http://dmfr.birjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/34/1/39
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incisor
-http://www.springerlink.com/content/m20u672h7h348381/
-http://www.sciencedirect.com