Definition: Calcifications in the tonsillar crypts.

Radiographic Features:

Location: Superimposed over the ramus and angle of the mandible on pantomographs.

Edge: Well-defined, smooth or irregular outline.

Shape: Round to irregular masses.

Internal: Radiopaque.

Other: May be unilateral or bilateral.

Number: May be single of multiple.

Tonsiliths

(bilateral with arrows)

Tonsiliths

(bilateral without arrows)

Tonsiliths – Bilateral

Tonsiliths – Left