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A comparative study of the prevalence of mandibular osteosclerosis in patients of Asiatic and Caucasian origin
Author(s) -
Austin B. W.,
Moule A. J.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
australian dental journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.701
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1834-7819
pISSN - 0045-0421
DOI - 10.1111/j.1834-7819.1984.tb04541.x
Subject(s) - osteosclerosis , medicine , incidence (geometry) , chinese population , differential diagnosis , radiography , dentistry , pathology , radiology , biochemistry , physics , genotype , optics , gene , chemistry
A bstract — Panoramic radiographs from a group of one hundred patients of Chinese or Indo‐Chinese origin and one hundred patients of Caucasian origin were examined to assess whether there was a difference in the number of osteosclerotic areas in the mandibles of one group compared with the other. Patients of Chinese or Indo‐Chinese origin showed a significantly larger number of areas. The differential diagnosis of radiopaque areas is discussed. Attention is drawn to the need to be aware of the high incidence of osteosclerotic areas in the Indo‐Chinese population during differential diagnosis of radiopaque lesions.