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A 4-year-old child has developed acute spontaneous pain in the tooth on the lower right jaw, which aggravates on biting. Objectively: in the 85 tooth there is a deep carious cavity non-penetrating to the dental cavity. Probing is sharply painful at all points of the cavity floor. Painful reaction to cold water stimulus and percussion is observed; mucosa surrounding the 85 is hyperemic. Submandibular lymphadenitis is detected. Make the provisional diagnosis:

Answer options

  1. Acute suppurative pulpitis
  2. Acute serous periodontitis
  3. Acute albuminous periostitis
  4. Exacerbation of chronic periodontitis
  5. Acute pulpitis complicated with periodontitis
Correct answer

Acute pulpitis complicated with periodontitis

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