Bilateral Maxillary and Mandibular Periapical Abscesses
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Systematic Assessment of Mammalian Skull Specimens for Dental and Temporomandibular Joint Pathology
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Cherian I Plamoottil1,2,3, Muneet Gill4, Rosa Flores5
1Emergency Medicine, HCA Florida UCF (University of Central Florida) Lake Nona Medical Center, Orlando, USA.
Cureus
|May 2, 2022
Abstract:
Odontogenic infections commonly arise from poor dental hygiene that forms dental caries, which can eventually progress to gingivitis and periodontitis. The authors present a case of facial swelling diagnosed as a periapical abscess with soft tissue swelling that extended into both the maxilla and mandible.

