PREVALENCE OF UNILOCULAR RADIOLUCENCIES AMONG A SUBSET OF INDIAN POPULATION - A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY
S Santhosh Bala
Undergraduate student, Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Saveetha University, Chennai, India
Dr. Sangavi .R
Senior lecturer, Department of oral medicine, Radiology and Special care dentistry, Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences,
Saveetha University, Chennai 77, Tamil Nadu, India, Email ID: sangavir.sdc@saveetha.com
Dr. Adimulapu Hima Sandeep
Associate Professor, Department of conservative and endodontics, Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Saveetha university,
Chennai – 600077, Tamil Nadu, India, Email Id: himas.sdc@saveetha.com
ABSTRACT
Introduction
Unilocular appearance usually indicates a benign, slow-growing condition that is not aggressive. Corticated/non-corticated borders, regular/irregular borders, root displacement, root resorption, mandibular canal displacement, and lingual cortex expansion are all radiographic findings that are equally important. Aggressive benign or malignant lesions are more likely to have uneven and non-corticated borders, lingual cortex growth, resorption of surrounding tooth roots, and erosion of the mandibular canal, resulting in paresthesia.
Materials and methods
It is a single centre retrospective study in a private dental institution, Chennai.the samples were taken from the patients who checked in from June 2019 to March 2021, Reported to the dental hospital with halitosis.the data was collected, verified, tabulated and analysed using SPSS by IBM version 2.0, the Chi square Test was performed to compare the data and check for its distribution.
Results and discussion
From the study results we can observe that unilocular radiolucencies are more prevalent in males.It was seen that unilocular radiolucencies are more common in the mandible compared to the maxilla. The most common unilocular lesion was periapcal cyst followed by dentigerous cyst.
Conclusion
This study concludes that unilocular radiolucencies are not as common as multilocular radiolucencies and periapcal cyst being the most common type of unilocular radiolucency seen .
Key words: Unilocular radiolucencies, Periapical cyst, Mandible, Radicular cyst, OPG, Innovative technology