Deceptive periodontal pocket diagnosed later as odontogenic keratocyst :Jaisika Rajpal, Aakash Arora, Prerna Arora, Ruchika Prasad, Journal of Interdisciplinary Dentistry

CASE REPORT
Year : 2015 | Volume : 5 | Issue : 2 | Page : 87--91

Deceptive periodontal pocket diagnosed later as odontogenic keratocyst

Jaisika Rajpal¹, Aakash Arora², Prerna Arora³, Ruchika Prasad⁴
¹ Department of Periodontology, Subharti Dental College, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
² Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Subharti Dental College, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
³ Department of Endodontics, PDM Dental College, Bahadurgarh, Haryana, India
⁴ Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Sardar Patel Dental College, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Correspondence Address:
Jaisika Rajpal
Department of Periodontology, Subharti Dental College, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh
India

A visual assessment of the periodontal tissues may be misleading. A periodontal pocket is the most important clinical feature of periodontal diseases. However, even the most reliable probing can be misleading at times and only X-rays of the area allow us to assess the exact clinical situation. This paper presents a report wherein the deceptive periodontal pocket later lead to the diagnosis of an odontogenic keratocyst.
CLINICAL RELEVANCE TO INTERDISCIPLINARY DENTISTRY
This case holds an important relevance to interdisciplinary dentistry as such cases are often reported by dental practitioners wherein, the patients chief complaint is very different from the clinical picture actually observed by the dentist. In this case a mere reporting of periodontal pocket would have led to mistreatment with curettage, whereas the actual treatment needed was enucleation.

How to cite this article:
Rajpal J, Arora A, Arora P, Prasad R. Deceptive periodontal pocket diagnosed later as odontogenic keratocyst.J Interdiscip Dentistry 2015;5:87-91

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Rajpal J, Arora A, Arora P, Prasad R. Deceptive periodontal pocket diagnosed later as odontogenic keratocyst. J Interdiscip Dentistry [serial online] 2015 [cited 2022 Aug 13 ];5:87-91
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