Candida albicans is a fungus that often colonizes the human body as commensal without causing any symptoms. Several C. virulence factors have been described in literature, of which best known are adhesion to host mucosa cells and secretion hydrolytic enzymes. The transition from colonization infection depends not only on fungus, but also response invasion. This literature review focuses differe...

Introduction: The inferiorly and laterally based platysma myocutaneous flap contains hair in some ethnics; therefore, it is required to change the myocutaneous flap to myofascial flap to prevent the hair growth after its transfer to the oral cavity.   Materials and Methods: Five male mongrel dogs were selected for this study. De-epithelialized laterally based platysma fl...

Diagnosis of many lesions of the oral cavity is challenging to most clinicians because of their uncommon prevalence. A number of cystic, metabolic, osteodystrophic, microbial, tumour and tumour like lesions of the oral cavity present with characteristic giant cell lesions; which makes their diagnosis and study simpler. We have attempted to classify the common giant cell lesions of the oral cavi...

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) represents the third most common group of malignant lesions of the oral cavity, following squamous cell carcinomas and salivary gland neoplasms. It accounts for 3-5% of all malignant lesions of the oral cavity [1]. Further, only 1% of all lymphomas are primary oral cavity lymphoma. Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma of the tongue is extremely rare. It can arise from Waldeyer’s ri...