The following symptoms and complaints may indicate a radicular cyst:
Main symptoms
- Often asymptomatic – radiographic incidental finding.
- Avital tooth (” dead tooth”)
- If necessary, percussion dolence (sensitivity to tapping).
- If necessary, tooth loosening
- Pain usually only with infected cyst
- “Parchment crackling” on palpation of a thin layer of bone over the cyst lumen.
- Large cysts:
- Displacement or displacement of adjacent teeth possible.
- Indolent (painless) distension of the bone.
Secondary symptoms
- Dentogenic sinusitis (tooth-related sinusitis) when spreading to the maxillary sinus (maxillary sinus).
- Pain due to pressure on adjacent nerves possible
