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Exam questionKROK 2Dentistry ยท 2020

A 14-year-old girl complains of a pulsing pain in her upper left teeth that lasts for 3 days already and sharply increases on biting. Objectively there is a carious cavity that does not communicate with the dental cavity. Probing of the cavity floor is painless. Vertical and horizontal percussion is sharply painful. Mucosa in the area of tooth 16 is hyperemic. What is the diagnosis?

Answer options

  1. Acute serous periodontitis
  2. Acute purulent periodontitis
  3. Acute purulent pulpitis
  4. Pulpitis complicated with periodontitis
  5. Acute serous pulpitis
Correct answer

Acute purulent periodontitis

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