Floating teeth
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Floating teethis the description given to the appearances on imaging of teeth 'hanging in the wind' as a result of alveolar bone destruction around the root of the teeth 1.
They are uncommonly encountered, with a wide differential diagnosis - albeit that the underlying cause will almost always be an aggressive bone disease/lesion. Causes include:
- severe periodontal disease (most common cause 1)
- metastatic deposits
- multiple myeloma
- eosinophilic granuloma
- ameloblastoma
- osteomyelitis
- lymphoma
- alveolar squamous cell carcinoma
- nerve-based or primary bone tumours (e.g. Ewing sarcoma) of the mandible or maxilla
-<p><strong>Floating teeth </strong>is the description given to the appearances on imaging of teeth 'hanging in the wind' as a result of alveolar bone destruction around the root of the <a href="/articles/teeth">teeth</a> <sup>1</sup>. </p><p>They are uncommonly encountered, with a wide differential diagnosis - albeit that the underlying cause will almost always be an aggressive bone disease/lesion. Causes include : </p><ul>- +<p><strong>Floating teeth </strong>is the description given to the appearances on imaging of teeth 'hanging in the wind' as a result of alveolar bone destruction around the root of the <a href="/articles/teeth">teeth</a> <sup>1</sup>. </p><p>They are uncommonly encountered, with a wide differential diagnosis - albeit that the underlying cause will almost always be an aggressive bone disease/lesion. Causes include: </p><ul>
-<li><a href="/articles/skeletal-manifestations-of-langerhans-cell-histiocytosis">eosinophilic granuloma</a></li>- +<li><a href="/articles/langerhans-cell-histiocytosis-skeletal-manifestations">eosinophilic granuloma</a></li>
-<li>nerve-based or primary bone tumours (e.g. <a title="Ewing sarcoma" href="/articles/ewing-sarcoma">Ewing sarcoma</a>) of the <a href="/articles/mandible">mandible</a> or <a href="/articles/maxilla">maxilla</a>- +<li>nerve-based or primary bone tumours (e.g. <a href="/articles/ewing-sarcoma">Ewing sarcoma</a>) of the <a href="/articles/mandible">mandible</a> or <a href="/articles/maxilla">maxilla</a>
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