[Oradlist] Calcifications questions?! - Cone beam images.

[Brown, Jackie]

Dear Allan and Julian
Looking at the location of the 2 smaller & more inferior opacities, they appear too high for submandibular calculi and too medial for parotid calculi. The one adjacent to the medial aspect of mandible is too lateral for a tonsolith. Considering the 4 together, I would think phleboliths/thromboliths, and agree with David about the possibility of a haemangioma.

Jackie Brown
Consultant Dental Radiologist
KCL Dental Institute
London
UK

-----Original Message-----
From: oradlist-bounces at lists.ucla.edu [mailto:oradlist-bounces at lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of S. Julian Gibbs
Sent: 13 September 2008 04:03
To: Oral Radiology Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [Oradlist] Calcifications questions?! - Cone beam images.

All of these discrete densities could be siaololiths (parotid and
submandibular glands).  Are there symptoms referable to these glands?
Have you considered sialography?
Julian
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S. Julian Gibbs, D.D.S., Ph.D.
Professor, Emeritus
Dept. of Radiology & Radiological Sciences
Vanderbilt University

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a
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                        --Niels Bohr


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