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  • A. Neonatal hypoplasia
  • B. Amelogenesis imperfecta
  • C. Dentinogenesis imperfecta
  • D. Cleidocranial dysplasia

Explanation: Dentinogenesis imperfecta produces opalescent gray or brown teeth, rapid wear, and radiographically large amounts of abnormal or…

Correct answer: Dentinogenesis imperfecta
  • A. Maxilla
  • B. Mandible
  • C. Cranium
  • D. Alveolar bone

Explanation: Teeth stimulate development and maintenance of the alveolar process, so complete absence of teeth leads to marked underdevelopment of…

Correct answer: Alveolar bone
  • A. Elongated wide pulp canals and short roots
  • B. Hypercementosis
  • C. Obliterated pulp chambers with secondary dentine deposition
  • D. Rootless teeth with thin shell of enamel

Explanation: Taurodontism is defined by an enlarged, vertically elongated pulp chamber with apically displaced furcation and relatively short roots.

Correct answer: Elongated wide pulp canals and short roots
  • A. Reiter's
  • B. Peutz - jeghers
  • C. Gardner's
  • D. Behcet's

Explanation: Gardner syndrome combines familial adenomatous polyposis with multiple osteomas, epidermoid cysts and dental anomalies such as impacted or…

Correct answer: Gardner's
  • A. amelogenesis imperfecta
  • B. Osteitis deformans
  • C. Odontodysplasia
  • D. dentinogenesis imperfecta

Explanation: Dentinogenesis imperfecta may occur with osteogenesis imperfecta, a disorder of defective bone formation, and produces opalescent, weak…

Correct answer: dentinogenesis imperfecta
  • A. Autosomal dominant
  • B. Autosomal recessive
  • C. Se* linked recessive
  • D. Not a inheritable trait

Explanation: The classic hereditary form of dentinogenesis imperfecta follows an autosomal-dominant pattern, so affected individuals commonly have the…

Correct answer: Autosomal dominant
  • A. Osteomas
  • B. Osteosarcoma
  • C. Epidermoid cysts
  • D. Impacted permanent teeth

Explanation: Gardner syndrome characteristically includes osteomas, epidermoid cysts and impacted or supernumerary teeth, along with intestinal…

Correct answer: Osteosarcoma
  • A. Papillion levefre syndrome
  • B. Ectodermal dysplasia
  • C. Cleidocranialdysostosis
  • D. Osteopetrosis

Explanation: Osteopetrosis mainly causes dense bone, delayed eruption, and impaction rather than true hypodontia.

Correct answer: Osteopetrosis
  • A. Hemifacial hypertrophy
  • B. Crouzan syndrome
  • C. Cherubism
  • D. Achondroplasia

Explanation: Hemifacial hypertrophy produces unilateral enlargement of facial bones and teeth, often with differences in crown and root size and…

Correct answer: Hemifacial hypertrophy
  • A. Increase osteoclastic activity
  • B. Polymerisation of collagen
  • C. Improper synthesis of procollagen
  • D. Increase fibroblastic activity

Explanation: Brittle bone syndrome, or osteogenesis imperfecta, results from defective type I collagen production, commonly involving abnormal…

Correct answer: Improper synthesis of procollagen
  • A. Turner syndrome
  • B. Sturge weber syndrome
  • C. Down syndrome
  • D. Klinefelter's syndrome

Explanation: Taurodontism is a recognised dental finding in Klinefelter syndrome, with enlarged pulp chambers and apically displaced furcations.

Correct answer: Klinefelter's syndrome
  • A. Multiple intestional polyps
  • B. Multiple supernumerary teeth
  • C. Deafness
  • D. scleroderma

Explanation: Peutz-Jeghers syndrome is characterized by mucocutaneous pigmentation and multiple hamartomatous intestinal polyps.

Correct answer: Multiple intestional polyps
  • A. Severe flurosis
  • B. congenital syphilis
  • C. Trauma at the time of birth
  • D. Due to chronic suppurative abscess in over lying gingival tissue

Explanation: Mulberry molars are poorly formed, rounded permanent first molars classically associated with congenital syphilis.

Correct answer: congenital syphilis
  • A. Secondary syphilis
  • B. Tertiary syphilis
  • C. congenital syphilis
  • D. Acquired syphilis

Explanation: Hutchinson incisors are notched, screwdriver-shaped permanent incisors caused by congenital syphilis.

Correct answer: congenital syphilis
  • A. Rickets
  • B. cherubism
  • C. Cleidocranial dysplasia
  • D. Congenital hyperthyroidism

Explanation: Rickets, cleidocranial dysplasia and cherubism can delay eruption, whereas congenital hyperthyroidism is associated with accelerated…

Correct answer: Congenital hyperthyroidism
  • A. PierreRobin syndrome
  • B. Crouzon's syndrome
  • C. Paget's disease
  • D. Marfan's syndrome

Explanation: Pierre Robin sequence is classically associated with the triad of micrognathia, glossoptosis, and cleft palate.

Correct answer: PierreRobin syndrome
  • A. Congenital syphilis
  • B. Anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia
  • C. Rickets
  • D. Supernumerary teeth

Explanation: Rickets mainly causes defective enamel formation, hypoplasia and delayed eruption rather than typically peg-shaped incisors.

Correct answer: Rickets
  • A. Exophytic oral Hemangioma
  • B. Facial hemangioma
  • C. Tramline calcification of dura on lateral cephalogram
  • D. Facial hematoma

Explanation: Sturge-Weber syndrome features a facial port-wine vascular malformation, possible oral hemangiomas, and intracranial tram-track…

Correct answer: Facial hematoma
  • A. Plasmacytoma
  • B. Multiple myeloma
  • C. Burkitt's lymphoma
  • D. None of the above
  • E. Both A & B

Explanation: Plasmacytoma is a localized plasma-cell neoplasm, whereas multiple myeloma is a disseminated plasma-cell malignancy involving bone marrow…

Correct answer: Both A & B
  • A. Chronic smokers
  • B. Gluten enteropathy
  • C. Excess of B-complex
  • D. Anti-malarial medication

Explanation: Recurrent aphthous-like ulceration is associated with gluten-sensitive enteropathy, probably through nutritional deficiency or immune…

Correct answer: Gluten enteropathy