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  2. Buccal exostosis - Wikipedia

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    A buccal exostosis is an exostosis (bone prominence) on the buccal surface (cheek side) of the alveolar ridge of the maxilla or mandible. More commonly seen in the maxilla than the mandible, buccal exostoses are considered to be site specific. [ 2 ]

  3. Oral torus - Wikipedia

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    An oral torus - also known as: dental torus - is an oral condition in which bony growth occurs in the mouth; there are three locations in which oral tori may appear: the hard palate (torus palatinus), in the lower jaw underneath the tongue (mandibular torus), and/or on the back or upper gums near the cheeks (buccal exostoses). While the growth ...

  4. List of periodontal diseases - Wikipedia

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    An internationally agreed classification formulated at the World Workshop in Clinical Periodontics in 1989 divided periodontal diseases into 5 groups: adult periodontitis, early-onset periodontitis, periodontitis associated with systemic disease, necrotizing ulcerative periodontitis and refractory periodontitis.

  5. Torus mandibularis - Wikipedia

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    Torus mandibularis seen at axial CT and volume rendering. Torus mandibularis is a bony growth in the mandible along the surface nearest to the tongue.Mandibular tori usually are present near the premolars and above the location on the mandible of the mylohyoid muscle attachment. [1]

  6. Morsicatio buccarum - Wikipedia

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    The lesions are located on the mucosa, usually bilaterally in the central part of the anterior buccal mucosa and along the occlusal plane level (the level at which the upper and lower teeth meet). Sometimes, the tongue or the labial mucosa (the inside lining of the lips) is affected by a similarly produced lesion, termed morsicatio linguarum ...

  7. Oral mucocele - Wikipedia

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    The most common location to find a mucocele is the inner surface of the lower lip. It can also be found on the inner side of the cheek (known as the buccal mucosa), on the anterior ventral tongue, and the floor of the mouth. When found on the floor of the mouth, the mucocele is referred to as a ranula. They are rarely found on the upper lip.

  8. Cysts of the jaws - Wikipedia

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    Buccal bifurcation cyst which appears in the buccal bifurcation region of the mandibular first molars in the second half of the first decade of life. [4] Eruption cyst; a small cyst in the gingiva as a tooth erupts, forming from the degenerating dental follicle; Primordial cyst; previous thought to be a unique entity.

  9. Fordyce spots - Wikipedia

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    They are painless papules (small bumps), about 1–3 mm in greatest dimension. The most common site is along the line between the vermilion border and the oral mucosa of the upper lip, or on the buccal mucosa (inside the cheeks) in the commissural region, [10] often bilaterally. They may also occur on the mandibular retromolar pad and tonsillar ...