Periapical granuloma vs Periapical cemental Dysplasia

# Difference between periapical granuloma and periapical cemental dysplasia:
A. Vitality
B. Histologically
C. Radio graphically
D. Culture media

The correct answer is A. Vitality

Periapical granuloma

The tooth in Periapical granuloma is non vital and may be slightly tender to percussion but otherwise symptoms may be minimal.

- Periapical cemento-osseous dysplasia (osseous dysplasia; cemental dysplasia; cementomas).

→ Periapical cemento-osseous dysplasia predominantly involves the periapical region of the anterior mandible.

→ Solitary lesions may occur but multiple foci are present more frequently.

There is a marked predilection for female patients (ranging from 10: 1 to 14: 1) and approximately 70 % of cases affect blacks.

→ Most patients are diagnosed initially between the ages of 30 and 50, with the diagnosis almost never made in individuals under the age of 20 years. 

Teeth associated with the lesions are almost invariably vital and seldom have restorations.

→ Periapical cemento-osseous dysplasia is an asymptomatic condition that is discovered when radiographs are taken for other purposes.

→ Early lesions appear as circumscribed areas of radiolucency involving the apical area of a tooth. At this stage, the lesion cannot be differentiated radiographically from a periapical granuloma or periapical cyst.

With time adjacent lesions often fuse to form a linear pattern of radiolucency that envelopes the apices of several teeth.