CategoriesPeriapical Cementoma (periapical cemental dysplasia) 3rd stage Tori and exostoses Condensing osteitis Cemento-Ossifying Fibroma (3rd stage) Hypercementosis Cementoblastoma Foreign body (periapical) Focal Idiopathic osteosclerosis (dense bone island) Osteoma and exostoses Fibrous dysplasia (radiopacity) Odontoma (radiopacity) Soft tissue calcifications Foreign bodies (focal) Root remnants Socket sclerosis Multiple & generalized Multiple impacted teeth Florid cemento-osseous dysplasia (radiopacity) Foreign bodies (multiple) Sclerosing Osteomyelitis Paget’s disease (stage 3) Soft tissue calcifications Osteogenesis imperfecta Osteopetrosis Foreign body (periapical) . The shape and the radiopacity of the foreign bodies are pathognomonic. The most common periapical foreign bodies are root filling materials and fragments of dental instruments.
