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A 15-year-old adolescent complains of a two-day long sharp pulsing pain in the tooth, which intensifies when biting or touching the tooth with the tongue. Objectively: the 26th tooth contains composite material filling. Vertical and horisontal percussion of the tooth are painful, the tooth is slightly mobile in vestibular-oral projection. Gingival mucosa of the affected area is hyperemic, swollen, sharply painful when palpated. X-ray imaging shows no changes. What is the most probable diagnosis?

Answer options

  1. Acute serous pulpitis
  2. Acute purulent periodontitis
  3. Acute purulent pulpitis
  4. Acute serous periodontitis
  5. Exacerbation of chronic periodontitis
Correct answer

Acute purulent periodontitis

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