Root Resorption: Or something else? Differential Diagnosis

Mouth, esophagus (food pipe), stomach, and intestines (K00-K67; K90-K93).

  • Disorders of tooth development and eruption.
    • Cementaplasia (“non-formation of cementum”).
    • Cement hypoplasia (“reduced formation of tooth cementum”).
    • Disturbance of odontogenesis (tooth development).
  • Dental caries (K02)
    • Dental caries (carious destruction of the enamel extending into the dentin/dentine).
    • Cement caries (dental caries of the root cementum).
  • Other diseases of the dental hard tissues (K03).
    • Pathological tooth resorption
      • Internal
      • External
    • Hypercementosis (excessive deposition of cellular cement towards the root apex).
    • Ankylosis of the teeth (fusion of the teeth with the jawbone).
  • Diseases of the pulp and periapical (“surrounding the root apex”) tissue (K04).
    • Pulpitis (inflammation of the dental nerve).
    • Pulp necrosis (death of the dental pulp / dental pulp).
    • Abnormal formation of tooth hard tissue in the pulp.
      • Secondary dentin (dentine)
      • Irregular dentin
    • Acute apical periodontitis (inflammation of the periodontium (periodontium) just below the tooth root; apical = “tooth rootward”) pulpal origin.
    • Chronic apical periodontitis
      • Apical periodontitis o. n. A.
      • Apical granuloma (inflammation-related, nodular tissue neoplasm).
      • Periapical granuloma
    • Periapical abscess with fistula
    • Radicular cyst
  • Periodontitis (inflammation of the periodontium).
  • Other diseases of the teeth and periodontium (K08).
    • Pathological tooth fracture (tooth fracture)
  • Other diseases of the jaws (K10)