Idiopathic osteosclerosis of the jaws

Yonetsu, Koichi; Yuasa, Kenji; Kanda, Shigenobu

doi:10.1016/s1079-2104(97)90156-6

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“…Some researchers reported a female predilection for the incidence of IO5 while others showed no significant difference in prevalence between males and females as in our study 4,8,15,17. The ages of our study group were ranged from 10 to 77 and there was no significant difference in prevalence of IO among age groups similar to results of Yonetsu et al4 and Kawai et al18…”

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“…The frequency of IO observed in this study was 6.1%, the same as the prevalence found by Yonetsu et al4 In the literature, the prevalence varies from 4% to 31%, and our findings fall within this range 2,8,16,17. One of the reasons for the variation in the studies is the different definitions of osteosclerosis.…”

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confidence: 81%

“…Another reason may be the choice of radiography. In some studies, periapical radiographs were examined1,2 whereas in some others, panoramic radiographs were used as the tool of investigation 3,4. In our study, we also preferred using panoramic radiographs in order to detect larger areas in jaws.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…One of the reasons for the variation in the studies is the different definitions of osteosclerosis. 4 Some researchers included radiopacities that are related to traumatic occlusion or pulpal inflammation, while others excluded these kinds of lesions from their study 2,4. In our study, solitary radiopacities in edentulous regions were not included, and asymptomatic radiopaque masses within the jaws which had no certain relationship to any known sources of hard tissue production were accepted as idiopathic osteosclerosis 2.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…According to the literature, although this disorder is sometimes described as a dense bone island, bone scar, focal periapical osteopetrosis, or enostosis,3 IO is often preferred because of its unknown origin 4–6. These lesions may be accepted as developmental intraosseous anatomic variations7 and should be classified separately from the cases resulting from inflammatory origin or systemic disease 4–6. These asymptomatic lesions are generally discovered as incidental findings on radiographs taken for other reasons 7…”

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The Frequency and Distribution of Idiopathic Osteosclerosis of the Jaw

Şişman

Ertaş

et al. 2011

Eur J Dent

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Objectives:To determine the prevalence of idiopathic osteosclerosis (IO) in the jaw by radiographic evaluation and to investigate the relationship between the findings in relation to age, gender, and localization.Methods:The study included 2,211 panoramic radiographs obtained from the patients (915 men and 1,296 women) whose ages ranged from 10–77 and who visited the Department of Oral Diagnosis and Radiology in the Faculty of Dentistry, Erciyes University between 2008 and 2009.Results:Of 2,211 patients, 135 patients (6.1%) had IO. The prevalence obtained in our study was in the range reported in the literature. IO was detected more often in mandible rather than the maxilla. In addition, mandibular molar localization was the most common localization, and most of the lesions were associated with root apices.Conclusions:In view of the findings, IO can be defined as developmental variations of normal bony architecture, which are unrelated to local stimuli. The lesions can arise at any age, any location with no sex predilection, and IO usually requires no treatment other than diagnosis. Because all these lesions were located in the jaw and could only is detected in panoramic evaluations, this indicates the importance of careful diagnostic evaluation of radiographies in dental examinations.

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