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Turkish- It is an unusual reaction of bone to a mild bacterial infection entering the bone through a carious tooth in persons who have a high degree of tissue resistance.
- Instead of destruction proliferation of bone takes place.
- The sclerosing bone is not attached to the tooth and remains after the extraction of the tooth.
- No surgical removal is needed.
Condensing osteitis
Features
Differential diagnosis
- Cementoma (periapical cemento-osseous dysplasia) 3rd stage
- Hypercementosis
- Idiopathic osteosclerosis (dense bone island)